NEW DELHI: Tens of millions of Indian adults are unlikely to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of 2021 despite ample supplies, due to an unusually large gap between the doses of the most widely-used vaccine and growing complacency as cases fall.
Meanwhile, people are growing increasingly complacent about getting inoculated as infections and deaths have fallen sharply in the past month. The government wants to vaccinate all of the country's 944 million adults by December but about 230 million of them have yet to get even a single dose. India doubled the dosage interval for Covishield in May when supplies were scarce and because government experts felt a longer duration would provide better protection.
A government study in July estimated that more than two-thirds of Indians already had coronavirus-fighting antibodies, mainly through natural infection. That gave them substantial protection even with one dose, unless more infectious variants emerge.
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