As of Tuesday, as many as 41,38,918 were vaccinated in India for coronavirus. The vaccination drive began on January 13. As per some commentators, the pace of the process needs to pick up, given that we have 1.3 billion people to be inoculated.

Taking to social media, Prof. Shamika Ravi has opined that it is time to partner with the private sector, given that the sector accounts for 75% OPD. Agreeing with her, columnist Samir Saran said that the vaccine effort is going nowhere till private sector is engaged. "We should have learned from the experience around #covid tests - crawling till private labs came into play. We should not lose time," he wrote.

Health sector expert Oommen C Kurian felt that the government should keep doing what it has planned to, and even accelerate. "But we need all hands on deck. Remember, protection delayed is protection denied. The supply of shots, thankfully, isn't the bottleneck for India. It's the capacity to deliver," he tweeted.

As per Twitter user Vaibhav Handuja, "There is no reason why India shouldn't now allow private sector in vaccination drive. There is no bottleneck in production capacities. Both government and private initiatives can coexist taking care of both equity and swiftness of vaccine disbursal."