The officials then held an awareness camp in the village Sisaunda but only 14-15 persons got inoculated on the day, said SDM Ramnagar Rajeev Shukla. To encourage people in his village to get the vaccine, Mr. Guddu says he is going door-to-door and showing them photographs of his own vaccination. In village Ganga Behar, when officials reached to vaccinate people, some persons aggressively objected to it, following which police had to be called. On May 18, the district had a vaccination percentage of 23.4 while it rose to 67.4% on May 22. Chandauli DM Sanjeev Singh said some members of the Musahar community had offered resistance to the vaccination.

Source: The Hindu May 24, 2021 18:45 UTC