PM Modi on Monday had announced that India would revert to a system of centralised procurement of vaccines against COVID-19 and slammed the politicisation of vaccination drive. In a string of tweets, Know The Nation pointed out the glaring holes in The Hindu’s ‘fact-check’ article and how it was trying to claim that India did not lack vaccine access. The …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on Monday presented a view of India’s vaccination history that is at odds with the facts. Smallpox vaccine A vaccine for smallpox, as a history of vaccination in India published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, by Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya, in 2012, says was first administered to a three-year-old Indian, in 1802, a mere …
