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On May 13, Niti Aayog's Vinod Paul, an influential member of the Covid task force said that India will have over 2 billion vaccine doses by August - December, but the spreadsheet math really does not add up. We listed the reasons @TheKenWeb #Thread #COVID19 #vaccine

Haffkine secured Rs 154 cr in grants; but if PSU was to be auctioned it could have secured up to a lakh crore, in 2012, money could have been pumped into making an international institute but Maharashtra govt was laxed. Haffkine will take at least a year to produce Covaxin now.

“Ultimately you want a situation where you have both old and new platforms. You should have inactivated vaccines, vectored vaccines, mRNA vaccines, and protein [subunit] vaccines. But that depends on how the government decides what they are going to invest in,” says @GKangInd

While PSUs have been struggling for close to six months to get their processes going, India needs a Plan B for making more vaccines available. Could newer tech be the answer? We report in today's [free] story - do sign up & share - the-ken.com/story/covid-ta… @Singh10Seema

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