The coronavirus may have won round one, but the fight is not over yet As the vaccine began to roll out in late 2020, a glimmer of hope flickered at the end of the tunnel of hopelessness. Yet, soon after the moment of optimism, two unfortunate developments dimmed this hope once again.A second -- and in some cases, a third -- wave of the pandemic due to new variants of the virus (some locally mutated and some imported from other parts of the world) dampened the prospect of an early end to the crisis. The stalemate in the distribution of the vaccine and questioning the safety, let alone efficacy, of some of the vaccines, revealed deeper politics of governance at the global as well as at the local levels.The Guardian sounded an alarm as the majority of the poor countries -- 92 in total -- are now dependent on India, which has its own needs to meet.