Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Reason why youth refuse injections

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The Daily Mirror recently reported that our youth are reluctant to take the Covid-19 jab which will result in spreading the infection again as youth are bold and not careful in their associatio­n with the society. I made some inquiries from campus youth by phone (friends of my grandson) as to why this was happening.

Ninety nine percent of the time the answer was that some type of injections are disapprove­d by most foreign countries. They fear that their future aspiration­s for foreign jobs will be in jeopardy. So they will wait till they get offers which will specify which injections are accepted in the country offering employment. This would take a long time as they are still studying.

This is a human rights issue which WHO should address immediatel­y with the participat­ion of foreign government­s. Even Indian friends in my email circle are of the same view regarding this issue.

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