India has two vaccines in circulation both based on inactivated virus and surprisingly there's no such fud spreading around these parts. Though the lines at vaccine centers are not long, I know many who have gotten it, including 85+ year olds with comorbidities who suffered one or two chills but that's about it.
Covishield is similar to Az/Ox vaccine and uses the AdV vector. Covaxin uses inactivated Cov2 viruses.
Long wait times in B'luru earlier this month. That said, I don't think the vaccine or the disease mean too much to Indians (due to all sorts of factors).
Wish the Govt. was looking at actual data and science rather than what their peers in other countries were doing. Looks like they'll be locking the country down and destroying parts of the economy that weren't destroyed by last year. Almost seems malicious at this point.
India and probably Brazil will suffer the most -long term- from Covid19 effect on worldwide trade and economic production. They are at the end of their demographic transition, and already had trouble cashing in (and cashing in is fundamental if you want to be a rich country).
In my tier-3 place it was surprisingly easy. My parents got a call asking them if they would like to get vaccinated, not even using the cowin app. The appointment was given after two days.
The first injection took an hour including the 30 min observation time.
I don’t think they will be locking. if i look in cowin for my pincode there are 500 slots free for vaccine tomorrow.
I don't think the government is going to lock the whole nation again. Maybe the state governments will lock the cities like Mumbai (which I don't think is a good idea) but other than that it is improbable that the national government will do anything again (atleast I hope so).
