There were also some who had medical issues and hence were not given the vaccine
GURUGRAM: The first day of Covid-19 vaccinations in the city received a mixed response. While many were excited and felt privileged to be getting the shot, there were others who had apprehensions about possible side-effects of the vaccine, their anxieties fed by hearsay, rumours and misinformation.
Unsurprisingly, none of the city’s six vaccination centres saw a 100% turnout of those originally scheduled to take the vaccine on Saturday. Several National Health Mission (NHM) workers said they were unsure about the vaccine. An anganwadi worker at Daultabad seemed very worried. “I am a single mother with small children. If something were to happen to me, there is no one to look after my children,” she said. Asked what had triggered this fear, she added, “I had visited a hospital last week to check up on a relative. A person had come there whose hand had been affected due to the vaccine, whereas a
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GURUGRAM: Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a gang of vehicle-lifters that used to steal high-end SUVs in Delhi-NCR, particularly Gurugram, and sell them in the northeastern states by replacing the original number plate with a fake one.
The accused would target only fully automatic SUVs. Once chosen, the gang would break open the vehicle’s lock by a high-end master key that allowed them to circumvent the SUV’s security system, police said. They would then change the registration number of the SUV with that of a scrapped vehicle in the northeastern states and then drive it to Nagaland before selling the same through a network of used car shops.
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AMBALA: The police have registered an immigration fraud case of Rs 7.10 lakh against a man and his two sons, who allegedly promised the complainant to send him to Australia, but instead sent him to Indonesia.
Jarnail Singh of Lakhnaur Sahib village in Ambala district lodged a complaint against three accused Banta Ram and his sons Sanjay Kumar and Sohan Lal of Shankar Colony, Kishanpura, Kurukshetra.
On the complaint of Jarnail, the three accused have been booked under relevant sections of the IPC at Ambala Sadar police station on Friday.
Jarnail said, “I had paid Rs 7.10 lakh to Banta Ram and his sons Sanjay and Sohan Lal for sending me to Australia, but they instead they sent me to Indonesia. I stayed for about four months in Indonesia and I got ill and for about one-and-a-half months, I stayed in jail. Later, they deported me to India. On reaching India, I demanded the accused to return my money, but they did not give any satisfactory response. I lodge