Chandigarh, June 10 -- While addressing 63 professionals gathered to attend fourth Postgraduate International Vaccinology Course, Dr Vinod Kumar Paul, member of NITI Aayog, focussed on drawing lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic and preparing for future pandemics.

The course is being organised by the department of community medicine and school of public health of PGIMER. In the inaugural ceremony, connecting through video call, Dr Paul highlighted the Indian journey of building Covid-19 vaccine and how India navigated through the pandemic in his keynote address.

He said, "During Covid-19, the vaccine was developed in about 9 months globally and we were in step the global time, but next time around it has to be developed within 100 days o...