Lauding India’s massive vaccination drive, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Thursday said that many countries are unable to mount such a response.
Dr. Swaminathan, who was responding to a query in a panel discussion at BioAsia 2022 on issues the Covax initiative faced on supply front initially, said that the phase of acute shortage witnessed in 2021 is behind and “we now have enough visibility to satisfy everybody’s demand.”
The challenge is going to be for many countries who are not able to mount the kind of massive vaccination programmes that India has successfully been able to. With lot of support needed on the ground in terms of technical help, management of workforce, funding and logistic support, Covax will be working to help the countries scale up targets to 70% of population, she said.
