A research and consultancy firm named Gallup has conducted a survey and the statistics show an alarming sign that the Pakistanis are not willing to get the covid vaccine.
The recent survey was carried out among a sample of 1,590 men and women in urban and rural areas of all four provinces of the country.
Gallup Pakistan posited a couple of questions regarding coronavirus and getting vaccinated.
Despite entering the third wave of coronavirus, the opinion polls revealed some alarming statistics.
The survey says that Pakistanis were asked whether they are concerned about contracting the virus to which 42% believe that natural immunity is better than vaccination while the same percentage said they were not worried about the covid vaccine.
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Similarly 42% of Pakistanis aren’t worried about the side effects of the vaccine while 38% of people don’t consider that covid-19 is a serious disease.
In the poll, 35% of Pakistanis say they don’t prefer getting vaccinated as they do not believe that the vaccine will provide effective protection against harmful infection.
However, 33% of Pakistanis have concerns that the vaccine doses were not thoroughly tested and 26% connected their reluctance with religious beliefs that don’t permit them to get immunized.
Although the government and health officials are continuously projecting the country’s covid situation and how bad it could turn but a large population still seems to be reluctant about it.
Moreover, the Sindh government has set up vaccination centers in different shopping malls where employees, their families, and customers will be vaccinated in different phases.
In addition to it, rumors circulated on social media that all those people who received covid jabs would die in two years.
Later, the federal health ministry explained that the news was fake but it had already increased people’s distrust in the vaccine.