{"id":27115,"date":"2021-01-20T23:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/20\/indian-hesitancy-sets-back-worlds-biggest-covid-vaccination-drive"},"modified":"2021-01-20T23:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:54:14","slug":"indian-hesitancy-sets-back-worlds-biggest-covid-vaccination-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27115","title":{"rendered":"Indian hesitancy sets back world&#8217;s biggest Covid vaccination drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low uptake fuelled by fears over safety of vaccine and spread of misinformation <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine drive has been hampered by turnout as low as 22% in some states, as fears over the safety of the vaccine and the spread of misinformation has fuelled widespread hesitancy.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, India launched the world\u2019s largest vaccination programme as it began the massive task of vaccinating its 1.3 billion citizens against coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/20\/indian-hesitancy-sets-back-worlds-biggest-covid-vaccination-drive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low uptake fuelled by fears over safety of vaccine and spread of misinformation Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine drive has been hampered by turnout as low as 22% in some states, as fears over the safe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[918,1066,346,62,914,512,916,299,79,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27117,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27115\/revisions\/27117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}