Guwahati: Kiphire Nagaland Regency has the lowest Covid-19 vaccination coverage for the first dose in this country at 21%, even as the first dose coverage edged 100% in many districts throughout India.
Thanks to doubts among the followers of Chirtstian in the Nagaland district with a low literacy rate, driven by the belief that inoculation is being carried out with the microchip engraved with the number 666, which is a ‘number of animals’.
The villagers are also afraid of people will become sterile and die after two to three years taking vaccines.
The second dose coverage on Saturday is 16% in Kiphire because little progress can be made in the first dose of vaccination.
“In our religion, 666 or the sign of the animal is anti-Christ.
People spread rumors that this is not a vaccine but the Microchips 666 was injected,” said Dr K Peezo Khalo, District Immunization Officer, Kiphire.
He added that the lower literacy rate in the district formulated doubtful factors.
“Not only do people who do not slip, even some educated people have developed vaccine doubts,” he said.
Khalo further said that distrust had spread since January.
“Except for doctors and nurses, even part of the health assistant staff moved away from the vaccine.
More doubt was reported from a rural hospital.
We have faced problems at the district headquarters too,” Khalo said.
“We translate the facts about Covid vaccines in local dialects and circulating the message of public leaders and records citizens through social media,” he added.
Akheto Sema, Secretary General of the Baptist Church Council in Northeast India, from Nagaland, said that 666 had nothing to do with Covid-19 against it scientifically.
Extremist groups speculated things like that especially, “said Haque, the founder of the life of the minister of life, online service to teach the truth of the Bible.
The Nagaland Ministry of Health has roamed the NGOs, religious leaders and residents’ records to eradicate their innocence, who haunts not only People who do not slip but also literate in several villages in the less developed district.
Kiphire appears among the top five aspirational districts named by Niti Ayog earlier this year, which means it is entitled to special credit to improve the livelihood Less than 1 lakh, has become the most difficult district in convincing beneficiaries to take vaccines.
The state immunization officer, Nagaland, Dr.
Ritu Thurr, told Ti that residents’ refusal was the biggest problem because they could not force people to take vaccines unless they agreed .
Even when rumors are Medi A social death and sterility haunted by Muslims inhabited in the lower Assam Regency, Thurr said the theory of ‘microchip’ in Kiphire is unique.
“Incorrect information with non-authorical facts has a vaccination drive that is very affected in Kiphire,” he added.
During the rainy season, many villagers in a hard hilly field cannot be approached.
Sangtam residents, Sumi and Yimkhiung are the majority in Kiphire.
Kiphire is currently part of the ‘North East Border Agency’ as part of the Tuensang region and its areas untouched even by the British colonial government even though neighboring areas were conquered during the 1920s.