Covid-19 has brought the world to a halt. Lives and livelihoods across India have been lost. Our goal should be to inoculate the entire country within 100 days of the vaccine being freely available. We conduct general elections covering the entire 1.3-billion-plus population within 40-60 days. Surely we can inoculate everybody within 100 days. We have to prepare blueprints and deliver. Ideally, the vaccine should be free. This 100-day vaccination challenge should be led by the prime minister. Narendra Modi should establish a Covid-19 “war room”, a central control with real-time information on inoculations, by city and by village. The precise number of doses required has to be forecast. There should be a daily target for inoculation by region and city and it should be monitored daily. Assuming a target of inoculating 80 per cent of the 1.38 billion Indians in the first round, we need 1.1 billion doses. Pharmaceutical companies need to augment production exponentially, after clearances . Our budget for the vaccines is US$7 billion or US$6.36, i.e. Rs 470 per person. The research into cheaper vaccines must continue. The vaccines have to be stored and transported at specific temperatures . The challenge will be to transport to remote villages. Private companies have robust cold chains and distribution systems which can reach remote villages – such as for ice-cream. Multinational companies will no doubt happily lend a hand and governments should team up with them. Corporations could donate their annual social responsibility budgets to the inoculation drives. Health workers involved in the vaccination programme should be inoculated urgently. Senior citizens should be inoculated at home. Overcrowded slums should receive priority. Sometimes, vaccines take decades to perfect. So, it will be provident to continue precautions such as handwashing, masking and distancing, even after receiving the vaccine. Media such as radio and TV should be deployed to convince people to get vaccinated. A professional educational campaign is necessary. Every person who gets vaccinated should be given a certification card. Governments should make the 100-day roll-out work. People can’t be living in apprehension forever. When the vaccines arrive, we must move with lightning speed. We cannot afford to lose this battle. Rajendra Aneja, Mumbai