India Coronavirus Dispatch: Private market to see a long wait for vaccines

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Why vaccines won't come to the private market anytime soon

India is not open to bringing vaccines to the private market due to limited stocks and a global urgency to inoculate priority groups, according to a report in ThePrint.

The government's partnership with the private sector played a key role in ramping up Covid-19 testing capacity but that will not work for vaccination, a top health ministry official told ThePrint. There are now plans "right now" to open up the vaccines to the private market as the vaccines are not available in excess to provide them "for the groups who