The announcement of Serum Institute’s prices for state governments and private hospitals raise quite a few questions Serum Institute of India’s (SII) announcement of the Covishield prices it will charge the union...
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Prosenjit Datta
What Ails India’s Vaccination Programme?
It is clear that not enough planning was done for the vaccination programe The lack of planning and sheer casualness with which India’s Covid vaccination programme was rolled out is becoming increasingly apparent every...
Too many shortcuts
The DCGI needs to realise that unlike a vaccine will eventually be given to the entire population and that is why it is particularly important to be careful about approving it. The Coronavirus pandemic has tested the...
Lockdown Diaries8: The Absence of Coordination
The center and the states are not discussing matters and that is marring the response to the pandemic The confusion in the resumption of domestic air travel is only the latest symptom of how little the centre and states...
No Country For Migrant Workers
The pandemic has bared the attitude of the authorities towards workers. As the lockdown keeps getting extended again and again, the attitude of the union government and the state governments towards migrant workers is...
The Looming Supply Shock
Policy makers have been worrying about the consumption slowdown for some time. But the far greater danger could be the supply side choking up. Even before the Coronavirus pandemic upturned the globe, finance ministry...
Manufacturing Strategies for a Post-Covid-19 World
A look at the lessons learnt from the lockdown and the five things that are likely to change in manufacturing after the pandemic. The lockdown will be over eventually even in states that have decided to extend it beyond...
Liquor is Quicker
Candy may be dandy but alcohol gives immediate revenues to state governments – and that is why they want liquor retailing to be allowed now When the national lockdown was announced, the union government left...
An Exploding Humanitarian Crisis
The 40-day lockdown may well flatten the curve. But for the poor and the ailing, the treatment prescribed may be worse than the disease. Twenty-seven days into the national lockdown, it is apparent that the union...
Wasting a Lockdown
The first 21 days have been frittered away by the Union government. The remaining period should be utilised properly. Whether India should have imposed a national lockdown when relatively few cases of Coronavirus had...
