Opening up the vaccine market
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The elements of a free market — competition, choice, and prices — will help advance social welfare
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A beneficiary gets herself clicked at a photo booth after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination shot at the BMC’s jumbo facility at Bandra-Kurla Complex.
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INDRANIL MUKHERJEE
The elements of a free market — competition, choice, and prices — will help advance social welfare
Today, India completes nearly four weeks since it began administering the two COVID-19 vaccines — Covishield and Covaxin. During this period, the country has managed to give the first dose of the vaccine to only about eight million people, which is about 0.6% of the population.