How India Flipped Its Vaccine Fortunes
NDTV
Vaccination in India: The health minister, only months ago, had to constantly battle opposition criticism on social media.
Only months ago, India ran so short of COVID-19 vaccines that computer experts wrote software code to help people snag scarce immunisation slots and the then health minister had to constantly battle opposition criticism on social media.
The minister later quit and in came a little-known but hands-on politician, Mansukh Mandaviya, who, according to a person close to him, communicates with vaccine producers on a near-daily basis and tries to resolve their problems promptly.
Vaccine supplies have surged.
Government officials say they are confident of fully immunizing nearly all adults by December, giving it the confidence to announce a gradual restart of vaccine exports in the October quarter, for the first time since April when a second surge in infections overwhelmed hospitals.
