Kolkata: Head of West Bengal Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “Bias” attitude towards several countries regarding the supply of covid vaccines.
The minister’s chairman also wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, asked him to increase the supply of vaccine doses to the country.
“I listened to the Prime Minister’s speech in Varanasi.
He has appreciated the Government of Uttar Pradesh for the success of the handling of the Covid situation in the state.
I did not oppose the People of Uttar Pradesh, but I wanted to remind the prime minister.
About the corpse floating in Ganges.
We found eight bodies from Our country and I don’t know how many are found from Bihar, “said the ministerial head.
“I want everyone in the country to be vaccinated, but what this government does with a vaccine is not true.
The ruled countries of BJP get more vaccines and non-BJP countries do not get vaccines.
This bias is not expected from the center , “he added.
Ensure that the country is able to manage 10 vaccines per day, the main minister said in his letter to the Prime Minister, “We did not get a vaccine for the past seven days.
According to our assessment, the state needs around 11.5 crores around 11.5 crore more covid doses 19 Vaccines to discuss all people in qualified categories, and go with current supply levels, it may take longer before everyone is closed.
So far we only receive 2.12 crore doses.
“” The country has started a drive vaccination at 16 January 2021, and to date, we have provided 2.5 doses of crore (1.81 doses 1 crore, 0.70 crore 2nd dosage) against supply of 2.12 doses of crore from the Indian government, 18 lakh obtained by the state government and balance by the private sector, “said the minister’s chairman.
“At present, we provide around 3 doses of lakh vaccines every day in our country and become very difficult to maintain this level because of irregular supply.
We can vaccinate more than 10 lakh people every day, provide sufficient amounts of vaccine doses.
Available , “Mamata wrote in his letter.
“In accordance with intimacy received from the Ministry of Health and the welfare of the United States, the state has been allocated 73 Doses of Lakh Vaccine Covid-19 for July 2021.
But unfortunately, only 25 doses of lakh received to date now,” he said.
“Therefore, we sincerely ask you to provide the instructions needed so that the supply of vaccines into our country increases according to our needs which is stated above, to facilitate vaccination most of the population before the third wave of Covid-19 sets in,” he concluded ,