Mumbai:
Even as the vaccination programme against the coronavirus pandemic is on in full swing across the country, the Maharashtra government has admitted that it is facing problems in some areas of the state.
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According to Maharashtra Public Health Minister Rajesh Tope, there is some hesitancy about taking the Covid-19 vaccine in areas with Muslim majority populations.
Tope informed that the Maharashtra government will rope in the services of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan in order to convince people from the Muslim community to give up their hesitancy to take the coronavirus vaccine.
“Although Maharashtra is a leading state in terms of the number of Covid-19 vaccine shots administered, the pace of the vaccination programme is low
in some areas of the state,”
Tope
told the media.
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“We have observed that there is some amount of hesitancy in several Muslim majority areas when it comes to taking the coronavirus vaccine. Since r
eligious leaders and film stars wield great influence among the public, the Maharashtra government has
decided to use the services of Salman Khan and religious leaders in an effort to increase the vaccination rate among the Muslim community,” he added.
More than 10.25 crore doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered to people in Maharashtra.
“B
y the end of this month,
all eligible persons in Maharashtra will have received at least the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine,” Top claimed.
The minister also asserted that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic – when it comes – will not be too severe due to mass vaccination.
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“According to experts, the Covid-19 pandemic has a seven-month cycle. However, since there has been a successful mass vaccination programme, the next wave of the coronavirus pandemic is not expected to be severe,”
Tope said.
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