Sunday Special: How India Foiled Pressure from Pfizer And Moderna, Confronted WHO on Excess Deaths Figure
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Last year when Pandemi Covid raged, Pfizer and Moderna offered their vaccine to India with $ 30 with several drastic terms rejected by the government to register. A few months later, India told the vaccine makers that they began to export their own vaccine, and they could buy it if they wanted.This year, India gathered regardless of political affiliation to protest WHO estimates of 4.7 million excess death of Covid in India. The center attached to its establishment that doing that came out of the ambition of the global health agency and if you had to do so, it should show death per million, noted it in the World Health Council.
News18 spokes to leading government sources that tell this incident in detail and how the Narendra Modi government decided to fight the global vaccine giant for “national interests” and reply to WHO’s efforts “to put India” even though India’s comparative performance is better against Covid-19 of West.
Last year’s back around time when the second wave created chaos in India and the whole world. The top government sources remember how there is a great pressure from all sides to buy a pfizer and modern vaccine, with foreign producers who offer them for $ 30. “The government knows it will not be able to manage the expensive vaccine to every Indian,” said a source. But what’s more disturbing India is his condition.
“They want us to provide a sovereign guarantee which means that the vaccine that requires -70 degrees Celsius storage, exported from the US, if there is a cold chain that is disturbed (making the vaccine useless), the company is not responsible. If there are people who get a vaccine facing side effects or suing companies, these companies will not be responsible, but will be the responsibility only and only the Indian government, “said the government source. Also, because the vaccine is used emergency and, meanwhile, if several major events occur (for example, death or disability due to vaccine administration), these companies seek protection from India by asking the Indian government to fight international cases in international courts. “Or if the company chooses to fight, India will bear their costs. To ensure that such disputes will be taken care of by the Indian government solely, they also ask for a sovereign guarantee where they look for the right to seize our property, “the government source further revealed.
It was then that India decided to cancel this discussion and Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya was sent on a trip four days throughout the country to Eological E, Zydus Cadila, Bharat Biotech, and Dr. Reddy. Mandaviya spends one day in each company and has a list of 25 questions for them to ensure their strengths, weaknesses, financial strengths, and manufacturing capacity, the source said. The minister returns and the government regulates finances and raw materials, giving a down payment company, and helps them regulate the ability to fill and complete. This causes an increase in Indian vaccine production three times in just one month.
India once again invited foreign vaccine makers who asked the possibility of their vaccine delivery schedule, which said the first shipment could be given in November 2021. “We then tell them that we will start our exports in October and that is also for $ 2.5 per vaccine dose; If necessary, you can buy. It’s all about respecting our country that we cannot be disappointed. Their negotiations feel like selling our own country, “said a source.
India has conducted 199 Crore vaccinations through the ‘Made in India’ vaccine and will reach the 200 Crore brand record this month.The situation once again appeared this May when the World Health Organization (WHO) said that 4.7 million people were killed in India because of Covid-19, far more than the official number of the Indian government around 5 deaths. India is confused why who has been meeting with countries for three months worldwide and if it is to divert attention from the ongoing events in other countries where people are still dying in the third wave
A source said that the WHO mandate is to encourage and promote the best practices, improve poor health facilities, provide access to health facilities, identify new epidemics, find out maintenance, and make maintenance affordable and accessible. “But it seems that they must prove, however, that India has a higher number of deaths considering globally, everyone praises India for good work in dealing with Covid-19. Only to bring down us, who did this complete training, “said the Top News18 government source.
Source said the government had given all the facts – that India had the right system to register birth and death and the same thing had been mandatory since 1969, produced 99.9% of registered deaths. The list says that in the Covid year, the excess of 9 deaths has been reported to the regular average. Of the 9 lakhs, 6 lakh deaths were caused by Covid while the rest due to non-region, India told WHO.
The center was in the middle of a three-day meeting with state health ministers when the news about WHO estimates 4.7 million deaths in India came out. Union Minister of Health Mansukh Mandaviya told all state ministers to forget their political affiliation and parties because “this is about India’s self-esteem,” said a source. Round resolution was signed by the Minister of Health from all states with Mandaviya assured them that he would go to the World Health Council and told them that whatever had been done was not true and clearly came out of the WHO mandate.”Even if who should do it, it should show death per million, but not,” said the top government source.India feels that given the 1.3 billion population, huge diversity, and is still able to control COVID-19, this is something that is not received by many people. “This is while some other countries continue to jostle with Covid-19,” the source added.
Last year when Pandemi Covid raged, Pfizer and Moderna offered their vaccine to India with $ 30 with several drastic terms rejected by the government to register. A few months later, India told the vaccine makers that they began to export their own vaccine, and they could buy it if they wanted.This year, India gathered…