"A lot of people in my village don't want to take the vaccine. They fear that they will die if they take it," Kumari told AFP in Dhatrath, a collection of two-storey buildings in Haryana state with buffaloes wandering the streets. "One of the villagers was so angry that he beat up a (health) worker who was trying to convince him to take the vaccine. "Even after opening up a vaccine centre here, nobody is ready to take it," villager Rajesh Kumar, 45, told AFP. "Gradually they were convinced that even if they get corona after getting vaccinated, they won't need hospitalisation.

Source: The Star June 05, 2021 02:48 UTC