Urban people rushing to villages for COVID shots
Urban people rushing to villages for COVID shots
BySupriya DedgaonkarSupriya Dedgaonkar / Updated: May 7, 2021, 06:00 IST
They book slots meant for villagers, depriving latter of doses
With the second wave of COVID-19 taking the entire country in its grip, the people are desperate to get vaccinated against the infection. However, in this race, the
residents of
Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad are in the frontier and are booking slots for Maan village’s vaccine
centre (in pic) which is ideally meant for the villagers.
Rural health officials have observed this pattern in the last couple of weeks and assert that there’s hardly anything that they can do about this as the process is online.