New Delhi: Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name, ‘Tika Utsav’ or vaccine competition will start within the nation from right this moment with an purpose to inoculate the utmost variety of eligible folks towards the coronavirus.
Several states are urging residents who’re eligible for the vaccination driver to get themselves inoculated in the course of the ‘Tika Utsav’.
The marketing campaign will likely be carried out until April 14 though studies of vaccine scarcity might pose a major problem.
ALSO READ | Covid Vaccine Shortage: Punjab Left With Only 3 To 5 Days Of Supply, Says CM Amarinder Singh
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has additionally issued an attraction to folks to get vaccinated in giant numbers.
In his interplay with chief ministers over the persisting Covid-19 state of affairs on Thursday, Prime Minister Modi had urged them to give attention to vaccinating all those that are above 45 years of age in excessive caseload districts.
“Sometimes, it helps in changing the atmosphere. The birth anniversary of Jyotiba Phule is on April 11 and on April 14, there is the birth anniversary of Baba Saheb. Can we organise a ‘Tika Utsav: or vaccine festival and create an atmosphere of ‘Tika Utsav’?” he had stated
“We should vaccinate as many eligible people through a special campaign and decide on zero wastage. If there is zero wastage in four days during ‘Tika Utsav’, it will also increase our vaccination capacity,” PM Modi added.
This ought to be our endeavour to vaccinate most eligible folks in the course of the ‘Tika Utsav’, PM Modi emphasised.
Meanwhile the studies of scarcity in Coronavirus vaccine provide proceed to boost issues. After states like Maharashtra, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand, Punjab additionally reported a scarcity of Covid-19 vaccine doses as Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh knowledgeable that the state is left with solely 3 to five days of vaccine provide.
As per information company ANI, he stated that Punjab is left with solely 5 days of vaccine provide with 5.7 lakh Covid vaccine doses on the present ranges of vaccinating 85,000-90,000 individuals a day.
If the state is ready to meet its goal of two lakh vaccines a day, then its present provides will final solely 3 days, the CM added.
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan had earlier known as the allegations of vaccine scarcity “utterly baseless”.
“Vaccine supplies are being monitored on a real-time basis, and State governments are being apprised regularly about it,” Dr Harsh Vardhan stated on Wednesday.
