India has approved Sputnik V vaccine - the only foreign made vaccine on Indian market.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2BZ0ZQ
India has approved the use of Russia’s “Sputnik V” vaccine against COVID-19 based on strong immunogenicity data.
It would be the first 100% foregn vaccine on the marked and the third COVID-19 vaccine approved in India after manufactured by Indian Serum Institute AsztraZeneca’s Covishield, and after local firm Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN.
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Bloomberg has an interesting background article about why things are so bad in India . Essentially they bought the capitalist myth that private enterprise is always best.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...eat-a-pandemic
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I've never understood the whole for-profit private healthcare systems thing. Quite obviously, that's not going to produce a patient-centric system.
I guess then that gets into the whole debate of whether healthcare is a right or luxury.
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Bloomberg has an interesting background article about why things are so bad in India
Cases per 1 million people
UK 64518.
India 11775
Deaths per 1 million people
UK 1868.
India135
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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India is in crisis with hospital beds running out and emergency cremation sites. I wouldn't take their desperation as endorsement of the quality of Sputnik. A parched man will drink seawater.
GF, you should know better than to quote such partial figures as a valid comparison, given the acknowledged surge in India, where there is overwhelming political will from Modi's government to underplay the covid reporting.
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their desperation
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Did you say "desperation"?
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gerefan...do u really believe the official figures as issued by the Indian government
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Moses
Did you say "desperation"?
I did, follow live reportage from Delhi, not doctored govt statistics. Severely sick people are unable to access hospital beds or oxygen.
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gerefan...do u really believe the official figures as issued by the Indian government
Too much long question. It should be
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gerefan...do u really believe the official figures as issued by the government
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There’s a very interesting long article in this week’s New Statesman that examines the “why” of this latest outbreak. In summary, blame religious festivals and other gatherings that abandoned social distancing.
Although the article is behind a paywall you can read it for free by registering your email address - https://www.newstatesman.com/world/a...ntrol-covid-19