What you need to know about India’s baffling new vaccine policy What you need to know about India’s baffling new vaccine policy The new policy allows the Centre to claim that it has done what the states asked for, while allowing it to shift blame for shortages or high prices. As stories of the brutal second wave of Covid-19 began emerging from all over the country last week, these were two of the many questions that emerged: Where was Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government? And what were the calculations behind his government’s massive vaccination campaign that seemed to be running out of steam rather than picking up pace?