“Focus on percent of population vaccinated rather than numbers”
Dr Ashok Seth, Padma Bhushan awardee and chairman, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, recommends increasing the gap between two doses for wider and effective coverage
GN Bureau | May 13, 2021
Expressing regret that despite being the largest producer of vaccines in the world things have fallen apart in India, Ashok Seth, a Padma Bhushan awardee and chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, has said that the focus needs to be on percentage and not the number of population vaccinated.
“With a 1.2 billion population we cannot say we can vaccinate X number of people. Herd immunity comes in when a large percentage of population is vaccinated…till 70% population is vaccinated,” said Dr Seth.