Urgent Need to Address Gap in COVID 19 Vaccination Coverage among Refugees and Vulnerable Internal Migrants in India
Introduction: COVID 19 vaccination is a important domain of this current emergency public health response to curb this pandemic situation, as we cannot afford to deal with recurrent out breaks of COVID 19, hence gaps in COVID 19 vaccination to be addressed and effectively gaps to be bridged. Methods: Largest vaccination drive in world was COVID 19 vaccination, started in phase manner based on the risk factors and exposure of the population, first phase was for health care worker end of first phase was for frontline workers and municipal workers, second phase was for gendral population above the age of 60 and 45-59 with co morbidities. Results: Government documents-ID proofs where needed to register the priorities population in the Co-WIN Portal and eventually will be vaccinated, refugees and internal immigrant who were eligible to get vaccination based on their age criteria were not able to get their vaccination due to lack of government documents and ID Proof.
