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Without internet and smartphones, vaccination inaccessible in rural UP as Covid cases go north -Preeti Choudhry

-IndiaToday.in

In the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh, most people do not have smartphones or proper access to the internet. The mandatory online registration for Covid-19 vaccination has made inoculation inaccessible for this belt.

India’s vaccination policy mandates that all in the age group of 18 to 44 register themselves in advance using the CoWIN website, Aarogya Setu app or Umang app in order to get vaccinated against Covid-19. No walk-in vaccinations for this age group are allowed.

While in the urban areas, where internet access is generally guaranteed and most people have access to smartphones this is possible, the story is very different in India’s villages. The access to Covid vaccination has been curtailed by the nation’s digital divide, even as the virus has reached and begun to ravage the rural areas of the country.

India Today TV’s team visited the rural parts of Varanasi and found that most people do not have the required internet access, smartphones, electricity and awareness to register for the vaccine.

No internet and smartphones

A resident of Kashigaon village said: “We are facing many problems because we have no information on how to register for the vaccine using our phones. No one in the village knows how to and no government team has come to educate us. I have tried to help many people in my village since I have a smartphone, but most people do not.”

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