India’s Virus Epicenter Has Only Three Days of Vaccines in Stock Bloomberg 3 hrs ago © Photographer: PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP A vaccination centre in Mumbai on April 1, 2021.
(Bloomberg) India’s fight against a renewed wave of coronavirus infections is beset by vaccine shortages in several states and cities including the financial capital, Mumbai.
The nation’s worst-hit state, Maharashtra, has only three days worth of vaccines in stock, Health Minister Rajesh Tope told reporters Wednesday, even as the country reported a record of over 115,000 daily new cases. Maharashtra alone accounts for some 55,000 infections. Other states, including southern Andhra Pradesh is also running low on shots, according to the Economic Times.
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At this point it seems likely that we will need to develop and distribute new Covid-19 vaccines annually. About 1.5 billion people get flu shots each year, but Covid-19 vaccinations would require a significantly larger effort. Scaling up vaccination capacity will have other benefits: it will give us the infrastructure to also tackle future pandemics, because although the virus has killed nearly 3 million, a fast-mutating flu pandemic could kill tens of millions.
This reality was reflected in this week’s push by a consortium consisting of the World Health Organisation, the EU, and more than two dozen world leaders for an International Pandemic Treaty championing equitable access to data sharing, diagnostics, and the production of vaccines.