1. On Sunday, Maharashtra crossed 4000 Covid cases after 39 days. Mumbai reports 600 cases after a month. Covid hasn't disappeared. Every day of delaying the private availability of vaccines makes us vulnerable. Unlike other countries, there is no dearth of supply here.
2. There is enough capacity in India to engage the private sector in administering vaccines to those who are willing to pay without affecting availability to the government for its drive to vaccinate priority groups.
3. Critical to take advantage of the overall drop in Covid numbers to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. The absolute daily vaccination numbers may sound impressive but as a percentage of our population that needs to be given the jab, we are nowhere close to where we need to get.
4. The Serum Institute @SerumInstIndia manufactures at the rate of 5000 doses a minute of Covishield, meets all its export commitments and govt supplies and can ramp up production in a heart-beat. Why underutilise this capacity?
5. With mutant strains causing havoc around the world, India cannot, cannot afford to get complacent - vaccinate more citizens faster now with the hope that the existing vaccines do protect against mutant strains as is the claim.
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