Voters go to the polls for state elections despite the state the country witnessing a second wave.
What's happening with vaccines?Indians have been reporting problems with online registration for a mass vaccination drive scheduled to begin at the weekend.How is India's vaccination drive going?But less than 10% of the population has received an initial jab and there are concerns about meeting demand.
Although India is one of the world's biggest producers of vaccines, it does not yet have the stocks for the roughly 600 million people becoming eligible. The White House says the United States is redirecting its own order of AstraZeneca manufacturing supplies to India, allowing it to to make more than 20 million doses of the vaccine.
Epidemiologist Bhramar Mukherjee told Reuters that India must combine the immunisation drive with a widespread lockdown to slow the spread. We need much larger scale lockdowns in India. Things are getting worse everyday. What are we waiting for?At this point lives are so much more important than livelihoods.
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