Many more men in India have received Covid-19 vaccines than women, government data showed on Tuesday, highlighting gender disparity in the country's immunisation drive that has also disadvantaged the rural population.
India has partly or fully vaccinated about 101 million men, nearly 17 per cent more than women. Men account for 54pc of the total number of people inoculated, according to the data seen by Reuters.
Many federally administered regions, the capital Delhi, and big states such as Uttar Pradesh have seen some of the worst inequities. Only Kerala in the south and Chhattisgarh in central India have vaccinated more women than men.
