Delta variant of covid virus

The Indian government has announced that they would be centrally purchasing and distributing the vaccines for the period till December 2021

They are planning to vaccinate almost 950 million people of India by then. This would be a massive exercise and vaccine manufacturing capacity needs to be built unlike any other in the world

Which is the reason why the Indian government would be funding the purchase and distributing it for free to the Indian population. They have sanctioned two new types of vaccines in addition to the already three in supply in order to meet the shortfall and facilitate an accelerated vaccination policy

the above snapshot gives an overview of the number of doses proposed to be manufactured and distributed for each vaccine

Dr Anthony Fauci Recently gave a presentation which explained the impact of the Delta variant and how virulent it is

It is becoming evidenthat the Delta variant has become the dominant variant of the covid virus. It has effectively replaced the alpha variant B 1.1.7. It's impact is primarily responsible for the huge second wave in India and seems to have a peak transmission in the 12 to 20 year old group which wasn't the case with the earlier variants of the virus. the most concerning item of the presentation was the fact that both the Pfizer and AZ vaccine seems to have a poor reception to the Delta variant of the virus

This is the reason Why two doses of the vaccine are extremely important because the single dose is less than 50% effective against the delta variant.