booster or precautionary vaccine dose. According to the survey by LocalCircle, 29% of the total 22,000 respondents said that they are delaying taking the booster dose as they recently suffered from Covid-19 and were found with the Omicron variant.
A total of 8% of people said that they believe that the vaccine is not helpful and do not plan to take it. A further 6% of the people said that they are hesitant and 28% said that they are awaiting data to see if the booster dose is effective and then plan to take it.
Only 58% of people said that they are planning to get the vaccine in the coming months. On the other hand, a whopping 81% of the respondents said that the government should make booster dose and vaccination for kids a part of their “Har Ghar Dastak" program immediately.
This comes as the Union health ministry said on Friday that early 169 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses have so far been administered in the country.