OPINION: With 1 Crore Jabs in a Day, Indian State Has Given Befitting Reply to Detractors
As of Friday, India had vaccinated over 50 per cent of its eligible population with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Be it encouraging vaccine hesitancy, to confusing state government and central government powers, to spinning carefully selected communal narratives around super-spreader events while shielding other super-spreader events from criticism, the entire list essentially reads as a chargesheet of wilful criminality. However, when the government did place initial orders for the two Indian-made vaccines, the reaction was to dismiss one vaccine as unsafe and untested while the other vaccine was dismissed as a product of nepotism. When the government did indeed rectify its initial oversight by placing large orders for vaccines as well as providing capital to these two vaccine manufacturers for immediate and urgent capacity expansion, that too was slammed as nepotism and questions were asked why certain other vaccines from abroad were not being procured. Isn’t it surprising that the two alternate vaccines being peddled, namely Pfizer and a Chinese vaccine, have since proven to be spectacularly ineffective in geographies as far away as Israel and Brazil.
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