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The Delhi government is fully prepared and has the best facility to vaccinate the entire population but we are not getting the required amount of vaccines from the central government
India
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New Delhi, June 03, 2021
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said that the Delhi government is fully prepared and has the best facility to vaccinate the entire population but we are not getting the required amount of vaccines from the central government. He said that the Delhi government wants to vaccinate more and more people because we want to save the lives of the citizens and do not want to save the vaccine.
Jain said that the central government must rethink its current vaccination policy because when a state is ready to vaccinate and to buy vaccines then it should get the required amount of vaccines. He said that for the past three days Delhi has been reporting a positivity rate below 1% which is a good sign but I will appeal to every citizen to follow COVID protocols.
Satyendar Jain said, “Yesterday Delhi reported 576 positive COVID-19 cases and the positivity rate was 0.78%. For the last three days continuously the positivity rate in Delhi has been under 1%. In this phase of the Covid pandemic, Delhi witnessed over 28,000 cases in 24 hours but now the number of Covid cases is coming down which is a good sign. Before this second phase of the pandemic in Delhi day to day cases used to stay within 200. My appeal to every citizen is that please maintain social distancing, wear a mask all the time and wash your hand from time to time.”
He said, “I understand that many people who have taken the first jab of Covaxin are not getting the scheduled second jab in Delhi. The situation has become like this because of the mismanagement on the behalf of the central government. They have changed the schedule of vaccination. If the central government had given us the required number of vaccines then no problem should have happened. But they are not providing vaccines. We are hopeful that people who are waiting for the Covaxin second dose will get it as early as possible.”
Delhi Health Minister Shri Satyendra Jain said, “Earlier the central government told us to vaccinate more and more people. The Delhi government has the best facility to provide vaccines to the citizens but the problem is that the central government is not giving us vaccines. We wanted to vaccinate the citizens of Delhi on war footing because we want to save lives. There is no point in saving vaccines.”
He said, “According to the central government 50% of the vaccines will be with the Centre, 25% will be given to the states and 25% will be given to the private partners. I think it is high time to rethink this policy and rework it. When a state is ready to vaccinate its citizens then that state must get the required number of vaccines.
The Delhi government is fully prepared to vaccinate the entire population but we are not getting it. We are buying these vaccines and giving them for free to the citizens but due to the policy of the central government, we are not getting the required amount of vaccines. The whole control over the vaccines and the price of the vaccines are with the central government. The cost of the vaccines in the private hospitals is also monitored by the central government.”
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said, “Till yesterday 1044 black fungus cases were there in Delhi. Out of these 1044 cases around 92 patients have recovered fully and around 89 people have lost their lives due to black fungus.”
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