Manmohan Singh Suggests Measures To PM Modi To Tackle COVID Situation

Former PM Manmohan Singh on April 18 wrote to PM Narendra Modi requesting to bring the vaccine procurement and distribution data in public domain. He advised to accelerate the vaccine distribution across all states by eliminating domestic trials of vaccines approved by legitimate authorities abroad. Suggesting compulsory licensing provision for pharmaceutical companies to speed up vaccine manufacturing, Singh requested to allow states to define the ‘frontline workers’ for COVID jab.