Administering a vaccine to all Indians for COVID-19 when it becomes available is a “complex ask”, and needs infrastructure such as cold-chain technologies and logistics, and specialised human resources including nurses, doctors and medical students, says Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, executive chairperson of Biocon.
After healthcare workers, the military, the police and anyone who is on the frontlines, teachers and the young working class–not the elderly and the vulnerable–should be given the vaccines, so they can get back to work & get the economy to be resurgent, Shaw adds.
If it is possible to shrink regulatory processes and timelines during COVID, why can’t it be done beyond COVID?, Shaw asks, explaining why emergency-use authorisations for life-threatening diseases are “a sensible regulatory pathway going forward”. Read More…
