In 114 of India's least developed districts – collectively home to about 176 million people – authorities have administered just 23 million doses in total.
That s the same number of doses as have been administered across nine major cities New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Thane and Nagpur which combined have half the population.
Urban Indians are getting COVID-19 shots much faster than the hundreds of millions of people living in the countryside, government data shows, reflecting rising inequity in the nation's immunisation drive.
Indians say no to dining out till COVID-19 pandemic ends, finds study
Among the different age groups, adults over 40 years of age were most likely to say they will dine out once the pandemic is over, but adults between 18 and 39 years were more likely than them to visit a restaurant upon vaccination
Vidya S | June 4, 2021 | Updated 20:08 IST
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Most urban Indians are in no hurry to visit a restaurant until the coronavirus pandemic is over or at least until they get vaccinated, according to a YouGov survey released on Friday, with greater fears of contracting the virus in the second and more virulent wave of the pandemic.