Four Congress-ruled states – Rajasthan, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand – on Sunday said they will not be able to start vaccinating all ...
Four Congress-ruled states – Rajasthan, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand – on Sunday said they will not be able to start vaccinating all adults from May 1 because the Centre had allegedly hijacked vaccine stocks from manufacturers, leaving very little for them.
Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma said when the state government reached out to the Serum Institute, which manufacturers Covishield, they were told that no vaccines were available till May 15.
He was speaking during a press conference of health ministers from the four states, T Singh Deo from Chhattisgarh, Balbir Singh Sidhu from Punjab and Banna Gupta from Jharkhand.
“We were told that the Serum Institute will not be able to give us any dose till May 15 because it would be busy delivering the orders booked by the Centre,” Sharma said. “So the question is, if the states want to procure vaccines directly, what is the process? The question before us is, we have 3.13 crore people in the 18-45 age group, how will we vaccinate them?”
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