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BusinessWorld April 28, 2021 | 12:07 am WASHINGTON — An agreement between the United States and three of its closest Indo-Pacific partners to produce up to a billion coronavirus vaccine doses in India by the end of 2022 to supply other Asian countries is “still on track,” senior US officials said on Monday, despite a surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in India. “It’s moving forward expeditiously,” a senior administration official told reporters in a briefing call, referring to the agreement last month between the leaders of the United St...

Government's New Vaccine Strategy Is Bad Economics Government's New Vaccine Strategy Is Bad Economics Updated: April 27, 2021 9:36 am IST After a tightly centralized vaccination drive that has delivered the required two shots to less than 2% of the population, India is opening up its inoculation strategy in the middle of a raging pandemic. Can the new approach flatten the curve? Expanding the campaign to all adults below 45 starting next month is a late but welcome move. India's daily infection rate of almost 350,000 is the worst any country has experienced. Even then, shifting a big part o...

India’s virus surge is a flashback, and a warning, to many in Massachusetts ‘It’s like experiencing what Boston went through,’ only much worse. Email to a Friend COVID-19 patients received oxygen in Delhi on Sunday.Atul Loke/NYT For many in the health care field, India’s tragic coronavirus surge — fueling a world-record 352,991 reported cases on Monday alone — is a painful flashback to the darkest days of 2020 when the virus rampaged through Massachusetts and the rest of the United States. But it’s also a reminder that, while more than 42 percent of th...

Synopsis After the current spike has peaked, people will still need to be inoculated at a rapid pace to flatten the curve and avert a third buildup. And that’s when the folly of charging Rs 600 or Rs 1,200 for a life-saving vaccine, in a country where the working class was struggling to buy Rs 5 biscuits even before the pandemic, may become clear. A vaccine queue in Mumbai. The world’s biggest democracy can’t shut anyone out of the market for vaccines. After a tightly centralised vaccination drive that has delivered the required two shots to less than 2% of the population, India is ope...

The Straits Times Quad vaccine pact for Asia 'on track' despite India crisis: US officials People waiting in queue to receive a shot of the Covid-19 vaccine in Mumbai, India, on April 26, 2021.PHOTO: EPA-EFE Published4 hours ago https://str.sg/JF7j They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the f...