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India needs huge investment to give all Indians Covid vaccine

Tuesday, September 22, 2020
A vaccine for the coronavirus will likely be ready by early 2021 for India. Rolling it out safely across India’s large population will be the country’s biggest challenge in fighting its surging epidemic, experts say. “By year-end, we will have data that will tell us which vaccines are working and which ones are not going to do so well,” said Kang, who until July was heading the Indian government committee looking into prospective indigenous vaccine candidates. “If we get good results by year-end then we are looking at vaccines being potentially available in tiny numbers in the first half of 2021 and larger numbers in the latter part.” Read more