What’s the scenario by which all the capacity expansions announced by SII and BB in April and gonna come online in July etc could’ve been advanced to January and be had the expanded capacity by April?
Large orders earlier? Mfg grant earlier? Cause clearly demand far outstrips
Large orders earlier? Mfg grant earlier? Cause clearly demand far outstrips
the supply not just for the Indian population but for the worldwide Covax alliance to which Poonawala has a contractual obligation of another Billion doses. And I’m not convinced by the argument in this article. swarajyamag.com/ideas/the-firs…
.@surajbrf has written a good data driven article laying out the terrain and the story abroad. But we have to adjust for the fact that Japan is not a host to any of the vaccine mfg but India is and Indian govt can push for additional mfg if it had the intent considering the needs
To me, some ppl comparing absolute vaccination numbers between smaller countries in the West to India is a dishonest assessment of where we are and where we should be in vaccination. Is our other essentials like food grains, power consumption etc compared in absolute terms? No.
We have two vaccine candidates from Jan and one with what makes us the largest vaccine manufacturer even before the pandemic. So considering our population and the existing players, scaling the mfg capacity adequately should’ve been the focus from day 1.
Apart from Ofcourse the fact that there is a billion doses of international commitments to be met. Whether upfront orders or upfront money grants or earlier identification and securing of supply chains for larger capacity… some or in all of these aspects we dropped the ball.
Not anticipating the deadly second wave or the need to inoculate rapidly a significant part of the population within the year to keep the country and economy open is probably where the govt went wrong. Maybe budget pressures and chorus of herd immunity played a role.
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