According to new data from the vaccine confidence project, published by UNICEF, the popular perception of the importance of vaccines for children has held firm or improved only in three countries, namely, China, India, and Mexico, out of 55 countries studied.
The India numbers are based on the estimates that 51,60,000 (48,24,000-56,29,000) deaths may have occurred in the country during the pandemic, a number which is 10 times the official figure of 5,24,941 deaths reported so far, Oliver Watson from the Imperial College London, the UK, said.