Chairman Tata Group N Chandrasekaran (PC-PTI)

Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Monday said India needs to get as many different COVID-19 vaccine licences as possible and replicate multiple factories on a war footing to ramp up production in order to meet the requirements as the country reels under the devastating second wave of the pandemic.

Terming the second wave as 'concerning and scaring', the head of the over USD 100 billion conglomerate also called for accelerated tracing and vaccination and tracking supply of the vaccines while asserting that a nationwide lockdown is not the solution as it would hit the economy hard and impact people at the lower strata of the society to the largest extent.