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Why India should roll out Covid-19 vaccine in the open market and ramp up its commercial export
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Why India should roll out Covid-19 vaccine in the open market and ramp up its commercial exportBy
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India needs to innovate and play a larger role in vaccine distribution. First, it must try harder to inoculate more of its citizens as quickly as possible and simultaneously demonstrate its soft power by supplying more and more vaccines to the rest of the world.
A month and a half after Covid-19 vaccination was rolled out in India, the government has allowed private hospitals to enter what was hitherto a no-go zone: vaccination on payment basis.