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Wajid Kadar Khan, who lives in a Mumbai slum, received a COVID-19 vaccine only because his job required it. His wife, Mumtaz (left), says she didn t need one because “I have God.”
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On a Sunday morning in early April, as Mumbai was in a daze from the first weeks of a surge of COVID-19 and had instituted nighttime curfews, Baliram Boomkar asked his neighbors in the city s Kaula Bandar slum whether they wanted a vaccine to protect them or had received one. Some replied that they had been vaccinated but only because their employers required it. One man said he d get the shot if his company gave him time off to recover from side effects. “COVID is nothing,” he said. “People are only spreading rumors. It s all a lie.” A woman said she was afraid a clinic might test her for COVID-19, find she s positive, and then force her to quarantine as happened last year. “I know I can t avoid the vaccine
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