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Embrace warp speed: India should recall a key learning from the smallpox and polio vaccination campaigns May 14, 2021, 8:06 PM IST
Kanti Bajpai is Professor and Wilmar Chair of Asian Studies, and Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore LESS. MORE
The only way out of the Covid pandemic is by vaccinating. Social distancing, masking and a reasonable degree of hand hygiene will help, primarily in buying time for the vaccine to be given to the vast majority of Indians. But as with other infectious diseases, vaccination is the only sure route to health security.