India’s Covid Crisis in the global context

Online panel discussion from 12th May with Shada Islam, Jayati Ghosh and K. Sujata Rao. Moderation: Michael Landesmann (wiiw)

The exponential explosion of COVID-19 cases in India has revealed major deficiencies in the country’s political and public health system. However, global mechanisms of vaccine production and distribution have also helped to push the world’s largest vaccine producer into a humanitarian catastrophe.

Questions that are addressed:

India accounts currently for over 40% of global daily infections. How has it come to this and how can this wave of the pandemic be contained?
What are the implications for other developing and emerging economies?
What has to be done at the global level and what is preventing a more comprehensive global vaccination campaign?
Is the EU doing enough to fight COVID-19 globally? Can there be a significant shift of policy in the coming months?