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Did the experts ever do any due diligence to ascertain the actual manufacturing capacity of the two companies they were almost entirely depending on?
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With 8 crore (7 cr from SII+ 1 cr from BBIL) being produced per month, just the priority group would have taken at least eight months or till August to vaccinate.
No matter how many times you calculate and recalculate, the vaccine mess India is facing seems inexplicable. The numbers just don’t add up.
Didn’t government experts looking into vaccine production and strategy do simple math? How does a country requiring 60 crore doses for just its “priority group” identified as far back as August last year depend on just two companies, Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL)? Did they get taken in by tall claims of the CEOs of the two companies about their production capacity?
No matter how many times you calculate and recalculate, the vaccine mess India is facing seems inexplicable. The numbers just don’t add up. Didn’t government experts looking into vaccine production and strategy do simple math?.
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Dr Paul said the Centre is doing all the heavy-lifting, from funding vaccine manufacturers to giving them quick approvals to ramping up production The vaccine procured by the Centre is supplied wholly to the states for free administration to people. All this is very much in the knowledge of the states, he added
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination programme across the country, the government has addressed seven myths arising due to distorted statements, half-truths, and blatant lies. In an official release on Thursday, Chair of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) and Member (Health) in NiTi Aayog, Dr Vinod K Paul clarified the seven myths.
COVID-19: Centre says 24 states reported fall in active cases since last week - It said that the national recovery rate touching 90 per cent is a positive indication.
24 states reported decline in active COVID-19 cases since last week, says health ministry ANI | Updated: May 27, 2021 18:21 IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry on Thursday informed that the 24 states have reported a decline in active coronavirus cases since last week and asserted that the national recovery rate touching 90 per cent is a positive indication.
Speaking at a press briefing, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary at Union Health Ministry, said: 24 states have reported a decline in active cases since last week. There are 15 states in which 1,000-5,000 cases have been reported every day. And in 13 states less than 1,000 cases have been reported while 24 states have reported a continued decline in active cases since last week.