New Delhi: Terming the shortage of Covid-19 vaccine in the country as a major challenge, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal suggested to the Center that with not only two but more companies also making vaccines to meet its demand, its formula must be shared.
Addressing a digital press conference here, Mr Kejriwal said the scarcity of vaccines has now become a major challenge for the country.
‘Today, only two companies are making the vaccine. These two together make only 6-7 crore vaccines per month. In this sense, vaccinating the entire country will take more than 2 years. Till then we don’t even know how many waves will come about and how much destruction we will have to face,’ he said.
‘Thus we must increase the production of vaccines in India on insurmountable levels and formulate a national policy to vaccinate every person within the next few months. Unless everyone is vaccinated, the battle cannot be won,’ Mr Kejriwal said.
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Mr Kejriwal said, ‘Today I want to give a suggestion.’ He said the vaccine production work should not just be carried by two companies only.
‘Many companies should be engaged in vaccine production. The Central Government should take the formula for producing the vaccine from these two companies and give it to all those companies which can safely make the vaccines,’ Mr Kejriwal said.
