Covid Task Force Chief Pitches For Quickly Adaptable Vaccine Platforms

NEW DELHI: Amid growing concerns over the new Omicron variant, India's COVID Task Force chief VK Paul has said that there is a potential scenario that "our vaccines may become ineffective in emerging situations".

Paul also stressed the need to be ready to modify the vaccines as per requirement. He also hoped that COVID in India is possibly moving in the direction of endemicity, where there is a low or moderate level of transmission going on.

"We have experienced Delta shock and now the Omicron shock... there is a potential scenario that our vaccines may become ineffective in emerging situations in the wake of the last three weeks of living with Omicron, we have seen how such doubts have come up, some of them may be genuine, we still don't have the final picture," VK Paul said.