Maharashtra Congress demands national policy for vaccination
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Nation combating COVID-19 with out vaccines, medicines: Congress chief.
The Maharashtra Congress on Wednesday demanded a national policy for the COVID-19 vaccination program, because the State confronted an acute scarcity of vaccines and lakhs of people had been awaiting their second shot.
“This is not the first time that India is faced with a pandemic or an epidemic. For many years, the nation has successfully fought diseases like polio and has run widely-acclaimed vaccination programs. But the intent and courage shown by the previous governments are lacking in this Central government led by Narendra Modi,” State Congress president Nana Patole mentioned throughout a press convention on Wednesday.
Mr. Patole mentioned the nation was combating COVID-19 with out vaccines, medicines, oxygen and utilizing sub-standard tools offered underneath PM-CARES. “The mishandling of this situation has spread the message that the Modi government cannot handle this pandemic,” he mentioned.
Mr. Patole mentioned as Maharashtra continued to face a scarcity of vaccines, it was necessary for the Central authorities to announce a national policy on vaccination.
Maharashtra had been main within the vaccination numbers until Tuesday. But the tempo of the vaccination drive within the State needed to be slowed down because of a scarcity of vaccines. As per the info until 7 a.m. on Wednesday, Gujarat had surpassed Maharashtra by way of the precise variety of people given the second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. Gujarat had accomplished two doses of the vaccination of round 36,47,949 individuals, whereas Maharashtra had utterly vaccinated 36,44,405 individuals.
Maharashtra, nonetheless, topped the entire variety of vaccinations amongst all others, with the State delivering 1,86,48,538 doses.
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