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India had just begun to unlock in phases when the first brainstorming meeting on the Covid-19 vaccine was held at the Prime Minister’s Office. It was July end. The country had witnessed a little over 35,000 Covid-related deaths and around 1.6 million cases. A vaccine was still a remote possibility.
According to people in the know, the meeting was called as R S Sharma, then chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), wanted to make a presentation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on what the government’s vaccine strategy should be, without which India would be in a mess.
