Severe Covid-19 vaccine shortages have hampered India’s plan to administer jabs to all adults, with fewer then half of India’s states able to begin vaccinating over-18s amid warnings the shortfall could last months.
Over the weekend, more than 600 million Indians became eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in a policy that was introduced in the wake of a deadly second wave hitting the country last month.
The government has been accused of complacency and a lack of forward planning when it came to ensuring there would be enough vaccines for its population of more than 1.3 billion. While other countries had put in sizeable orders last year, the Indian government only placed its first orders in January for just 15.5m vaccines from the Serum Institute, which makes the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine (known as Covishield in India, the most widely administered vaccine in the country), and Bharat Biotech, which makes the indigenous vaccine Covaxin.
Credit: theguardian.com
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