Vaccine is only solution to COVID crisis in India: US top health expert Dr Anthony Fauci

Washington, DC 10: As India continues to witness an unprecedented second wave of the COVID-19, America's top public health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci emphasised the need to ramp vaccination drive and said, vaccination is the only solution in the current situation.

 

 

During the interview, he said, "Getting people vaccinated is the only long-term solution to the current COVID-19 crisis in India."

 

He said, " The endgame of this Pandemic is going to be to get people vaccinated." He said India is the largest vaccine-producing country in the world and it has to get its resources, not only from within but also from without.

 

The director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said other countries need to chip in to be able to get either supply to the Indians to make their vaccines or to get vaccines donated.

"That's the reason why other countries need to chip in to be able to get either supply to the Indians to make their vaccines or to get vaccines donated. One of the ways to do that is to have the big companies that have the capability of making vaccines to scale up in a great way to get hundreds of millions of doses to be able to get to them," he said.

 

 

 

He further added India needs to immediately build makeshift field hospitals like what China did a year ago.

 

Underlining the need for a countrywide lockdown, he said apart from vaccination, there are other ways too, like shutting down the government. He said, "I have advised them in the past that you need to do that. You've got to shut down. I believe several of the Indian states have already done that, but you need to break the chain of transmission. And one of the ways to do that is to shut down.”

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