Vaccination is the only long-term solution to COVID-19 crisis in India, says Fauci

The American public health expert also stressed on the importance of a lockdown to break the chain of transmission.

Getting people vaccinated is the only long-term solution to the current COVID-19 crisis in India, America's top public health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday as he called for scaling up manufacturing of coronavirus vaccines both domestically and globally to fight the deadly pandemic. “The endgame of this all...is going to be to get people vaccinated...India is the largest vaccine-producing country in the world. They've got to get their resources, not only from within, but also from without,” Mr. Fauci, who is the Chief Medical Adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, told ABC News in an interview. “That's the reason why other countries need to chip in to be able to get either supplies to the Indians to make their own vaccines or to get vaccines donated. One of the ways to do that is to have the big companies that have the capability of making vaccines to really scale up in a great way to get literally hundreds of millions of doses to be able to get to them,” he said.