Why home-produced Covid vaccine hasn't helped India, Russia and China rollouts

Challenge of reaching vast, far-flung populations is combined with a lack of public interest

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The day India started coronavirus vaccinations, Amit Mehra's name was on the priority list. But he never made an appointment. I'm not inclined to get vaccinated just because it's available," says the 47-year-old Delhi hospital worker.

Two and a half thousand miles away, strolling past a popup inoculation centre near Red Square in Moscow, Magomed Zurabov is similarly reluctant. Suspicious that the pandemic was deliberately engineered, he has no intention of being vaccinated, he says. Instead, he is taking the necessary precautions": wearing a mask and using disinfectant.