New Delhi: The common man of India will have to
wait more than a year for a shot of the coronavirus vaccine.
Even though India's active Covid-19 cases are witnessing a significant slide and the recovery rate has increased, but many parts of the country have seen a worrying spike of the infection.
According to the AIIMS Director's statement the common people of India would have to wait another year to get vaccinated.
AIIMS Director and a member of the national task force on the coronavirus management of India, Randeep Guleria said, the vaccine will be market ready by 2022, so the common people will have to wait another year for a shot of the coronavirus vaccine.
"For normal people, it will take "more than a year. In our country the population is large; we need time to see how the vaccine can be bought from the market like a flu vaccine and take it. That will actually be the ideal situation,"Randeep Guleria said on an interview with news channel CNN-News18.
Speaking about the challenges India would have after a coronavirus vaccine is available Randeep Guleria said the main priority will be its distribution so that it can reach each part of the country. "Maintaining the cold chain, having adequate syringes, adequate needles and being able to deliver it to the remotest part of the country in a seamless manner is the biggest challenge," the AIIMS director said.
He said, the second challenge would be to figure out the positioning of another vaccine which would come out later and would be more effective in comparison to the first one.
"So if we have a vaccine that comes out later and is seen to be more effective than the first one, how do we position it? How do we do a course correction? How to then decide who needs vaccine A and who needs vaccine B? A lot of decisions need to be taken as we go along," he added.
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