India suffers vaccine shortages as virus surges
By AFP
10 April 2021 |
12:19 pm
Vaccination centres in parts of India, including Mumbai, turn people away and large parts of the country reportedly run low on doses, just as infections rise at their fastest rate since the pandemic began.
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