Scared of vaccine, elderly woman in UP village takes cover behind a drum, video viral

An elderly woman in Etawah of Uttar Pradesh hid behind a storage drum in her house to avoid getting vaccinated.

In yet another incident showing the large-scale vaccine hesitancy plaguing India’s rural belt, a video has emerged of an elderly woman hiding and taking cover behind a drum inside her house during a door-to-door vaccination drive in Etawah of Uttar Pradesh. The elderly woman is seen crouching and hiding behind a drum in fear of the vaccine even as her family members and healthcare workers try to persuade her to come out. When she finally came out in the open, the woman is seen repeatedly saying no and is visibly scared at the sight of the healthcare workers conducting the vaccine drive.