COVID VACCINATION News reports say that for the first time in three months, the seven-day rolling average of daily Covid 19 cases in India has registered a rise for four consecutive days. The Government of India has issued fresh norms for international air travel making it compulsory for travelers to upload a Covid negative RT-PCR report within 72 hours prior to travel and even warning them of prosecution if they filed false certificates. The reported presence of the U.K., South Africa and Brazil mutant variants of SARS-COV-2 is causing concern. Experts feel that Covid is not going to disappear for some time and vaccination against Covid will be a long-term affair. They say that highly contagious variants can quickly overrun our country which is opening up now. The healthcare system can be further strained and this must be stopped. Vaccination is the answer now. In an article, Dr. Devi Shetty, Chairman of Narayana Health, the renowned healthcare facility in Bangalore, says that India, with few lakhs hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and medical colleges has the capacity to vaccinate 500 million in one month. He says that we need 34,722 nurses working 8 hours per day to vaccinate half the population of India in one month. Rotary believes in the art of the possible and by offering our expertise in advocacy to the local State Governments, we can combat vaccine hesitancy. A storm of misinformation around vaccines may seriously dent the fight against the virus. In 2020 we witnessed unprecedented changes, chaos and even panic. Vaccines against Covid was the most awaited product in 2021. Though mass vacci- nation programme has begun, the response has been lukewarm. This is inspite of the fact that the vaccines are available free of cost to healthcare, sanitation and frontline workers. Rotarians can create awareness in the community. The reluctance or refusal to vaccinate by the people should not deter our efforts as similar behaviour was seen when oral polio vaccines were introduced and resistance was there for MMR (Measles, Mumps, Ru- bella) vaccines in certain parts of the country. Community immunisation is a challenging goal our Government has undertaken and we have to offer our expertise, assistance and support for this programme. Misinformation overload and limited attention span of people add to the challenge and the endless debates around hesitancy include safety, efficacy and side effects. Rotary efforts must be highlight to the people that to break the chain of transmission it is imperative to get vaccinated but the good news is that majority of the population have the intention to get vaccinated. I hope you have taken the cue from the Rotary Club of Madras, RI District 3232, who have successfully arranged with the Govern- ment of Tamil Nadu to work with Rotary in the entire State. The letter from the Principal Secretary to Government, Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, can be a model on which you can request the Government of your State to partner with Rotary. Probably they can say that all the Rotary Clubs in the State will the nodal agencies to assist the Government in the State with the vaccination drive. With the reported opening up of the vaccination drive to more citizens through the new ver- sion of the CO-Win digital app, the infodemic around the vaccine must be tackled by actively debunking myths, misinformation and fake news about the Covid vaccines.