Covid-19: not ready to take ‘poisonous’ injection, villagers jump into river in UP

Villagers in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki jumped into the Sarayu river to escape Covid-19 vaccination when a team of health officials reached to inoculate them.

According to the report, Sisaunda locals were reluctant to take the vaccine as some people had told them that it was a 'poisonous' injection.

As many as 200 villagers jumped into the river while several others stood on the embankment, threatening to jump into deep water.

They all wanted just one thing that the vaccine administrators leave their village.

Fearing that the villagers might drown, the health workers gave them assurance that they would not administer jabs, The Hindustan Times reported.