Centre was busy in ‘international image management’ instead of handling COVID-19: Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia on India’s ‘Vaccine Maitri’

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New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday (May 9, 2021) attacked the Centre over its ‘vaccine maitri’ and stated that it was busy in ‘worldwide image administration’ instead of handling the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Manish Sisodia said if the COVID-19 vaccine doses weren’t exported, they might have been used to vaccinate and save the lives of individuals who died as a result of coronavirus.

“At a time when almost every Indian family was affected due to the virus, the Central Government exported 6.6 crore COVID-19 vaccines to 93 countries and left its own country’s people to die,” the Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister tweeted in Hindi.

He said that the youth in India are dying because of the scarcity of coronavirus vaccines and alleged that Central Government supplied the Delhi authorities with solely 5.5 lakh vaccine doses for folks over 18 years of age, whereas it exported over 6.6 million doses to nations just like the United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Oman, Afghanistan and Morocco.

Sisodia blamed the Centre for the scarcity of vaccine and stated, “If there were so much amount of vaccine, it should have been given to our own people for better COVID-19 management but the central government was engaged in international image management.”

He additionally stated, “It is a good thing to worry about the world, but the countries like USA, Canada, Europe, are arranging vaccines for their people first. Only France exported 1 lakh vaccines last month.” 

“Our central government has donated 6.6 crore since March,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Centre on Sunday morning stated that it has up to now supplied greater than 17.56 crore vaccine doses to states and UTs free of value. “Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 16,83,78,796 doses as per data available at 8 am on Sunday,” the press assertion learn.

(With inputs from companies)
 





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