The hefty price tag of vaccinating India

The TLDR: We are all waiting for a vaccine to rescue us from our pandemic woes. But even when it arrives, delivering that golden jab to a country of 1.38 billion people will not be easy. We took a close look at each stage of the vaccine delivery chain to assess the enormity of the challenge. This is the first of our two-part series.

Will we have enough vaccines? 

The model for distribution: The Fair Priority Model drawn up by a team of global medical experts calls for prioritising regions that have higher infection rates to prevent spread. The WHO’s Global Access Initiative aims to cover at least 3% of every country’s population at the outset—and gradually increase to 20%.

But the US, China and Russia have opted out of WHO’s initiative, and the richer countries—US, UK, EU and Japan—have reserved 1.5 billion doses in advance.

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