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Express News Service BENGALURU: Although the vaccination of people aged above 60 and those over 45 with comorbidities is set to begin in two days on March 1 several challenges are yet to be addressed. One of the biggest challenges is ensuring that all people aged 45 and above with comorbidities are covered. However, data on the comorbidities that people suffer isn’t readily available in most states, said Dr Giridhara Babu, epidemiologist and member of the state’s Covid Technical Advisory Committee. “A lot of time has been spent on deciding which comorbidities must be factored in, but little has been done to identify people with these comorbidities,” he said. Identifying them is hard because most Indians do not know if they have comorbidities, he added. Giving an example, he said, “A study done by Prof GVS Murthy and others found that nearly 50 per cent of people who had type 2 diabetes mellitus had become blind by the time they found out that they had it.” Experts fear

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