Prognosis
India Boosting Vaccination to Prevent Another Wave of Infections
- Government says it’s prepared to tackle third wave of virus
- Ruling party official Panda speaks to Bloomberg TV Asia
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India has scaled up vaccination for its 1.3 billion population, apart from boosting heath care infrastructure as it prepares for a third wave of coronavirus infections, Baijayant Panda, vice president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, said.
“The biggest bet of course we are making is that our vaccination roll out has been scaled up enormously,” the BJP leader, known as Jay Panda, said in an interview to Bloomberg TV Asia on Monday. “By end of the year, we hope to have a majority of Indians vaccinated.”