Jagriti Rai (intern journalist) New Delhi: The government has said that its priority will be to first vaccinate a critical mass of the population and break the chain of transmission of the virus indicating that the entire population may not be mandatorily vaccinated.
“The government never spoke about vaccinating the entire nation. I just wanted to make that clear” said health secretary Rajesh Bhushan
The government has made it clear that everybody may not actually require this vaccine. First of all, vaccination will be for those who have been working in front of this battle of Coronavirus. Secondly, it would be in those areas where there has been a certain mass outbreak.
And the idea behind isolated vaccination of people would be to ensure the entire chain of spreading this virus which has essentially been something that India has been trying to come back can be broken with the immediate effect and that can only be if a systematic way can be turned out to ensure that places of people where we have seen hotchpotch of the crowd in covid, suggests can be settled first and also the government has made it very clear that there would be proper systematic, logically by which this entire vaccination will happen among the masses. They have also gone on to say that it remains to be seen whether or which vaccination would be chosen finally by the government of India and it also depends whether it would be a one-time vaccination or they would have to be second-time vaccination.
The question would depend on the efficacy of the vaccine and obviously, there is a range, for someone it would be effected 60%, for someone 70 % then someone else. So, efficacy is one issue. The second issue is that our purpose is to break the chain of virus transmission. So, if we are able to vaccinate a critical mass of people and break that virus transmission, then we may not have to vaccinate the entire population Said DG, ICMR, Balram Bhargava
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