The supply side

Ramping up vaccine availability has become critical

With the daily Covid-19 caseload in India crossing 200,000, surpassing the September 2020 peak, it is clear that the government needs to get its vaccination act together fast. Instead of opting for transparency and clarity on vaccine availability and delivery, the government appears to have retreated into a web of obfuscation. While the government claims that there is no shortage of vaccines even as states such as Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and now Delhi complain of shortages, simple math shows that there is one.

The health ministry claims that it has supplied 131 million doses of Covishield and Covaxin to states