Public Sentiment Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccination Drive in India

The vaccination drive for prevention against COVID-19 in India started from 16th January 2021. Two vaccines used for this drive are Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. This drive has already crossed 600,000 mark in first four days and the government has stated that the drive will be further accelerated in coming days to ensure immunity to the citizens of the country. However, there is a section of the community which is still skeptical to the COVID-19 vaccination. This research work has been conducted to analyze the sentiments in the tweets posted in India regarding these two vaccines. The analysis shows that while a majority of the population is posting with positive sentiments towards these vaccines, there are also negative sentiments associated with them, associated with the emotions such as fear and anger.