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How fast can vaccines solve India s COVID-19 crisis? It s complicated.
All adults will be eligible for shots beginning tomorrow. But supplies are limited, and experts fear the poor will be left out.
ByVaishnavi Chandrashekhar
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CHENNAIIt’s 9 a.m. local time, and the security guard at a primary health center in Chennai, a major city in south India, is turning away people at the gate. Most have come to get their second shot of Covaxin, one of two COVID-19 vaccines currently available in India that both require two doses. Some hold up their phones and say they’ve got an appointment from the government vaccine app. But the guard tells them they’re too late. A case of vials enough for only a hundred shots had arrived earlier in the morning. “People were waiting from 6 a.m.,” he says. “It’s over.”
March 12, 2021
The signboards clearly indicated where the Covid-19 vaccination centre was situated at Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital. Yet, the centre, spruced up with welcome signs and a photo booth, was sparsely populated on Tuesday morning. The registration queue manned by two policemen had barely 10 people in line for the vaccine. Most of them were hospital staffers wearing their scrubs.
Outside the Delhi government-run hospital, 50-year-old daily-wage earner Prem Nath and his wife Asha Devi, 48, stood waiting for the bus to get back to their home in Dwarka, West Delhi. They did not know the hospital had a centre where they could avail the coronavirus vaccines free of cost.