Quad vaccine partnership goal still on track despite pandemic wave in India: Top U.S. official

The Quad vaccine partnership was announced at a summit level meeting in March, before the pandemic situation in India deteriorated significantly.

A top Biden administration official has said that the Quad group of countries – India, Australia, the U.S. and Japan – are on track to meet their goal of producing at least one billion vaccines for the Asia region by the end of 2022, despite the massive COVID-19 wave that has hit India in recent weeks. The Quad vaccine partnership was announced at a summit level meeting in March, before the pandemic situation in India deteriorated significantly. “Our discussions with both our partners in the private sector and also in government suggest that we are, knock-on-wood, still on track for 2022, but …the most intense efforts right now really are in the short term, “ Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration’s top official for Indo-Pacific policy said on Tuesday. He was speaking at an event organised by the Center for New American Security, a think tank in Washington DC .