{"id":109467,"date":"2021-05-31T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T04:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=109467"},"modified":"2021-05-31T21:10:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T15:40:31","slug":"resolving-bottlenecks-in-procuring-pfizers-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/resolving-bottlenecks-in-procuring-pfizers-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolving bottlenecks in procuring Pfizer&#8217;s vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Synopsis &#8211;<\/strong> Pfizer has asked for certain conditions. They are in order to supply 5 million doses to India between July and October this year.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>According to reports, Pfizer is ready to supply five crore doses of the mRNA vaccines [developed with the German company BioNTech] between July and October.<\/li>\n<li>However, the company has requested certain protection from the Centre. It has done this with other 116 governments across the world, including the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, to seal the deal, the pharmaceutical giant and the Indian government must quickly resolve their long-standing dispute over the protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Pre-conditions to supply Vaccine to India:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pfizer said that it will supply vaccine only to the central government, not to individual states. <\/strong>The company also refused to send vaccines directly to local governments citing its <strong>policy of dealing only with the Central<\/strong> government of various countries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The company has also asked for protection from the Government of India.\u00a0<\/strong>Such as, slots for testing of their vaccines in CDL (Central Drugs Laboratory).<\/li>\n<li>The company is also requesting that it <strong>should not be liable for compensation<\/strong> in case of an adverse event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>What needs to be done in order to increase procurement?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>Timely vaccination is the need of the hour to protect people against the coronavirus, thus the<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/challenges-in-vaccine-procurement-in-india\/\"><strong> Centre needs to take charge of all procurement and negotiations<\/strong><\/a> with all vaccine suppliers, including domestic and foreign.<\/li>\n<li>The government has to <strong>consider the global situation in decision-making<\/strong>. Such as, around 14.7 crore doses of Pfizer vaccines have already been administered worldwide without any significant reports of adverse effects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Source-<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/editorials\/seal-the-deal-covid-19-task-force-vk-paul-pfizer-biontech-7334718\/\">The Indian Express<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis &#8211; Pfizer has asked for certain conditions. They are in order to supply 5 million doses to India between July and October this year. Introduction According to reports, Pfizer is ready to supply five crore doses of the mRNA vaccines [developed with the German company BioNTech] between July and October. However, the company has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/resolving-bottlenecks-in-procuring-pfizers-vaccine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resolving bottlenecks in procuring Pfizer&#8217;s vaccine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1351,1310,9],"tags":[1289],"class_list":["post-109467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-public","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704855328},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}