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83% Kashmir healthcare workers avoid vaccine: Doctors

The Hindu | 12/02/2021 11:45 PM | Click to read full article

The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK), a Srinagar-based doctors’ body, on Friday claimed that over 80 per cent of healthcare workers in Kashmir have “avoided inoculation of COVID-19 vaccine”.

Official figures said that out of 7,000 healthcare workers at the Government Medical College, Srinagar, and its associated hospitals, only 1,167 (16.67 per cent) had received the vaccine as of February 9.

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