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India Has Plenty of Coronavirus Vaccines But Few Takers

  • Doctors shun early-stage vaccine, ignore government pleas
  • India may fall short of plan to vaccinate 300 million by July
A nurse administers a shot of the Covishield vaccine in Mumbai, on Jan. 16.Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg
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Most of the world is struggling to secure enough vaccines to inoculate their populations. India has the opposite problem: Plenty of shots, but a shortage of people willing to take them.