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On January 3, Aarti Morya, a 42-year old (primary health centre) worker, one of 25 participants chosen for a Covid vaccination dry run, walked into the Daryaganj urban public health centre in Delhi. Thirty seconds later, she walked out again, terrified. Though she eventually went through the procedure, she says she did so only because all her colleagues were going ahead with it. She recounts seeing several television crews and photographers at the entrance of the centre. “The attention made me nervous. I don’t know why there was so much media,” she says. What she didn’t realise at the time was the significance of this dry run—it was among the first tests to see if India’s health system was prepared to vaccinate the country’s 1.32
