India did much better than even the developed countries when it came to vaccination to prevent the spread of COVID-19, said Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.
She was delivering the Jerome D’Souza memorial endowment lecture on ‘Future Pandemic Prevention in Relation to WHO Experience’, which was jointly organised by Surana and Surana International Attorneys and Loyola College in Chennai on Wednesday.
Dr. Sowmya, a former Chief Scientist with the World Health Organisation (WHO), spoke on the country’s ability to develop vaccines quickly and help other nations. The vaccination process in India was much better than many other countries. “It [the process] was done extremely well, considering that adult vaccination is not a national programme, and not something done routinely. I think the whole world really appreciated the way India carried it out. I think our digital infrastructure and backbone also came in handy since a lot of things were achieved using digital platforms during the pandemic,” she said.
