About 2 percent have yet to decide whether or not to take the booster shot, according to local social community engagement platform LocalCircles.
News from China of a new variant of COVID-19 emerging and wreaking havoc has made citizens and authorities anxious. The dominant Omicron sub-variant that is currently spreading across China is BF.7.
Epidemiologists and health experts estimate that 60 percent of China’s population will be infected and that the current wave could lead to a million deaths.
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Hospitals in China do not have enough beds and people are seen waiting for hours in crematoriums to bury their loved ones.
“It appears from the result that while 28 percent have taken the precaution of getting vaccinated and also the booster shot, and 8 percent probably will in the next 30 days, there is a sizeable 64 percent of respondents who currently are reluctant to take the booster or precautionary dose,” the findings noted.
The latest survey received more than 19,000 responses from citizens located in 309 districts.
While many people, especially in levels 2, 3 and 4 and rural districts, believe that COVID is long over and there is no need to take more doses, a number of cases of heart attacks and strokes that have occurred in the networks of people themselves and those reported in the media are making a part of the population believe that the vaccine is causing side effects.
In a previous survey, 51 percent of citizens said they have one or more people in their close network who have had a stroke or heart attack, cancer acceleration, or neurological condition in the past two years.
Source: IANS
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