{"id":417888,"date":"2021-06-01T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417888"},"modified":"2021-06-01T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T04:36:15","slug":"let-private-sector-make-and-procure-covid-vaccines-spicejet-scion-urges-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/let-private-sector-make-and-procure-covid-vaccines-spicejet-scion-urges-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Let private sector make and procure Covid vaccines: SpiceJet scion urges govt"},"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,&#8221; 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,<\/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,&#8221; 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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417888","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=417888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}