covid-19 vaccines to its more than 1.3 billion people. This comes amid hopes that a vaccine for the deadly infectious disease will be ready by the end of this year or early next year.Safe delivery of the doses for mass vaccination will be the biggest challenge for any country, especially the world’s second-most populous nation.The plan involves tapping all available cold chain and warehouse operators in the country, said executives at logistics companies.
While a bulk of the vaccines will be distributed through the Centre’s Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) mechanism, executives also expect that the government will rope in private cold chain operators.“It is important to understand that there is not enough capacity available.