{"id":417865,"date":"2021-06-01T08:42:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417865"},"modified":"2021-06-01T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T03:55:33","slug":"open-up-vaccination-to-indias-private-sector-spicejet-scion-avani-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/open-up-vaccination-to-indias-private-sector-spicejet-scion-avani-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Open up vaccination to India&#8217;s private sector: SpiceJet scion Avani Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avani Singh, the chief executive officer of SpiceHealth and daughter of SpiceJet Ltd. Chairman Ajay Singh, has called upon India\u2019s government to open up the manufacture and procurement of vaccines to the private sector, saying it\u2019s the only way to ensure the nation\u2019s vast population receives adequate protection from the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government needs to become much more lenient in opening up vaccination to the private sector,\u201d Singh said in an interview last week. \u201cWe are obviously moving at a much slower pace with vaccinations than we should be. If they let private players like labs and hospitals procure vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and let private players make Covaxin more aggressively we could significantly ramp up the administration and build up enough immunity to get out of this faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avani Singh, the chief executive officer of SpiceHealth and daughter of SpiceJet Ltd. Chairman Ajay Singh, has called upon India\u2019s government to open up the manufacture and procurement of vaccines to the private sector, saying it\u2019s the only way to ensure the nation\u2019s vast population receives adequate protection from the pandemic. \u201cThe government needs to become much more lenient in opening up vaccination to the private sector,\u201d Singh said in an interview last week. \u201cWe are obviously moving at a much slower pace with vaccinations than we should be. If they let private players like labs and hospitals procure vaccines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}