As the Indian vaccination drive stalls, the Modi regime’s vaccine policy is clearly the weak link in the fight against the pandemic. On April 19, the government announced its decision to deregulate the COVID vaccine procurement and delivery process, mainly from a duopoly of Indian producers. Also, the fact that no other country has priced a COVID vaccine places India in splendid isolation in a world battling the pandemic. The Modi regime has been claiming that the Indian vaccine drive, the biggest in the world, has now covered 150 million people. Also read: Second wave of COVID-19 in IndiaBy the end of April, the Centre had supplied 16.16 crore free vaccine doses to the States.

Source: The Hindu May 07, 2021 00:22 UTC