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With the increase in Government vaccination effort, also comes chaotic attempts to get more vaccine doses and looks like Russia and China are considered good candidates after previously looking at their Vaccines with caution.  The focus is now more on getting as many people vaccinated with as many vaccines the Government can get with less focus on quality of the vaccines.

I confess that I've never understood that attitude from them. Countries that don't produce COVID-19 vaccines should not be that picky as to which one to use, especially when rich countries are hoarding doses [1], in a sharp contrast to China's attitude.

Locally, the authorities have shifted to China's Sinopharm ever since Oxford-AstraZeneca (first obtained under the WHO COVAX mechanism) started to become harder to get when India was hit hard by the pandemic.

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[1]- The US did exactly that from the start but promised lately to share its stockpile with the rest of the World.