In rural India, fear of testing and vaccines hampers Covid-19 fight

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'People do not even step forward for testing as they think the government will declare them COVID-positive even if they are not,' said a doctor in Miyaganj village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

With India's devastating recent virus surge easing in cities, the deadly pandemic is ravaging the vast poverty-stricken rural hinterland. But here, ignorance and fear rule.

Rumours are shared online or spread through messaging apps like WhatsApp. Fears that 5G causes Covid-19 led to mobile towers being attacked in Haryana. In other states, reports have emerged of people jumping into rivers or fleeing into forests just to escape mobile health teams. "People who went to hospital never came back," another villager in Nuran Khera, who gave his first name as Kuldip, told AFP.

Experts say that India needs to apply the lessons learnt in its polio vaccination campaign in the 2000s of children under five.

 

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