India’s Vaccine Supply Conundrum

Eight months after India began the world's largest vaccination drive, it has administered jabs to just over ten per cent of its population. Despite opening up COVID-19 vaccination for all adults from May, India's average number of doses dropped to very low levels in May. In the first 10 days of May, only 1.7 million doses were administered per day on average, lower than the 2.4 million doses administered in the previous 10-day period. If India is aiming to vaccinate all adults (940 million people*2 doses) by the end of 2021, the average daily dose has to increase to at least 7.3 million, four times the current rate. The high reduction in daily average doses administered in Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kar