In his two-page letter, Congress leader and former prime minister Manmohan Singh has suggested ways to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the country that is currently grappling with the second wave of coronavirus.
Mr Singh wrote that the government's strategy must focus on the percentage of the population that has been vaccinated instead of looking at absolute numbers. He urged PM Modi to make reveal to the public orders for the coronavirus vaccine placed by the government and inform how the doses will be distributed among the states based on a transparent system.
The veteran Congress leader also suggested that any vaccine that has been cleared for use by credible authorities such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or the US FDA must be allowed to be imported without insisting on domestic bridging trials.
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