The Covid infections in India are now affecting the Covax programme. Professor Arjun Sigh Bedi: 'India’s vaccine diplomacy and swaggering were based on the false idea that the disease had been defeated domestically.'
In this interview with Erasmus Magazine, ISS professor, Arjun Bedi discusses India's response to COVID-19, the country's vaccination programme and how politics and image took precedence over actually dealing with the pandemic.
He argues that the government's sense of complacency, the decentralized vaccine procurement programme and the privatization of vaccine administration are some of the factors that led to India's recent devastating infection rates.
'Don't hoard vaccines; share them with other countries'
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