– Arvind Kejriwal writes to PM Modi
The vaccine against covid-19 is crucial in immunizing the uninfected masses of the country, and currently, India has 2 vaccines that are made within the country. The Russian vaccine Sputnik-V has been cleared but is yet to be rolled out for public vaccination. Many States are facing shortage of the vaccine.
At such a time, Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal came up with a nice suggestion. He wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and suggested the Centre to collect the vaccine’s formula and share it with other manufacturers so that the needed vaccines can be produced for the Indian population.
Kejriwal said “Only two companies are producing vaccines. They produce only six to seven crore a month. This way, it will take over two years to vaccinate everyone… many waves will have come by then. It is important to increase vaccine production and frame a national plan,”
“… several companies should be deployed to produce vaccines. Centre should collect the formula from these two and give it to the others so they can produce vaccines safely,” he added.
“The centre has the power to do this in these difficult times,” he stressed, writing to the PM, “every Indian should be vaccinated in the next few months and we are ready to play every role”.