Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE) in Sri Lanka: March 2022

For this the most recent birthday was selected to participate purpose, the questions in the survey tested the in the survey. [...] effect of misinformation, trust in authorities and the potential impact of the virus on the lives of the Limitations in the data collection respondents, among other factors, on Covid-19 vaccine confidence, uptake and accessibility. [...] The survey deaths in the country.vii The spike in the country’s was administered face-to-face in Sinhala and Tamil, Covid-19 patients and death rates resulted in an covering the period December 16, 2021 to January accelerated vaccine rollout administered by the tri- 1, 2022. [...] A vast majority of the respondents—95.6% of the The study relied on the groupings within vaccinated respondents (n = 2,476)—had received at least and unvaccinated respondents to make certain one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. [...] The main barriers included: respondents were least willing to obtain the not having time to go to the vaccine centre (13%), Sinopharm vaccine, which was the most widely feeling [external] pressure to not get the vaccine administered vaccine in the country.