mahe, the top performer, is india s smallest district, just nine square kilometres. its health infrastructure is limited, too. but this man, a retired professor, could easily get both doses of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. initially, people were afraid because there were being huge rush at the centre and that itself would be spreading corona, but that fear was done away with this present system. the system involves sending health workers door to door to schedule vaccination slots and dispel any myths about the efficacy. with a population ofjust 31,000, the strategy worked. in my house itself, there is four times the health staff visitage. things were made easy. in remote, ruraland highly populated districts, the challenges are different.
only 3% of the half a million people in south salmara mankachar in eastern india have received their firstjab. most people don t wear masks and vaccine hesitancy is widespread. translation: people are saying that anyone who gets vaccinated will die after two years. very few people here i believe in coronavirus. this virus has been given too much importance. i most people in this district bordering bangladesh are muslim and this man says the community feels targeted by charges of unauthorised migration from across the border. translation: the bjp government behaves badly with our muslim - minority community and says that they will make us leave india. now they suddenly have sympathy with us and are giving us free vaccines. why? we are scared and suspicious. the administration denies allegations of mistrust and says
the panel report. to be fairfor them, i haven t read most of it, the family only got it this morning, its 12,000 words. it s good that priti patel the home secretary has asked for her response to it there are various recommendations about senior officers not going to work in the media about a whistle blowing culture, about letting police officers. we need to see those changes or this could happen again. thank you so much forjoining us. more areas of england will be getting extra help to tackle the continuing spread of the delta variant of covid first identified in india. yesterday borisjohnson made clear that a final lifting of restrictions depends on bringing that very transmission under control. the increased support including surge testing will be introduced in birmingham, blackpool, warrenton, liverpool city regent and check shire from where oui’ our help, correspondent dominic hughes reports.
every hilltop is turning into a graveyard. - there are few countries in the world less equipped to deal with a pandemic on this scale. afghans are now being killed by both the continuing war and covid 19. after going through a devastating second wave of covid india is scaling up its vaccination drive, to reach a billion adults by the end of the year. leaving aside whether they can make enough of the vaccine, the challenge is to get it to people. distribution is wildly uneven. divya arya finds out why. india has vaccinated more than 230 million adults since the start of the year. it wants to triple that by december. bbc analysis of first jabs so far reveals the drive has been anything but uniform, from only 3% of people to 53%.
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