Doctors warn of fresh COVID-19 outbreak if people opt not to get vaccinated
The Hindu
Coordinated pan-India campaign can reduce impact of pandemic, they say
The growing COVID-19 in India is not enough, warn doctors, who say the cost of people opting not to get vaccinated has the potential to cause
“If people decide not to get vaccinated due to hesitancy and doubts, or even if the vaccination is delayed , the potential for new outbreaks of COVID-19 remains very high. New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are sprouting, which might be more transmissible and resistant to vaccines,” said Mubasheer Ali, senior, internal medicine, Apollo Telehealth.
Stating that vaccination in India was still a matter of choice, he noted that a coordinated pan-India campaign could reduce the impact of the pandemic.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.