Rajasthan
Rajasthan: Ashok Gehlot confident of arresting Covid surge, but complains of vaccine shortage | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot apprised the Congress central leadership on the corona situation in the state while expressing confidence that the state is fully prepared to handle the situation.
After the meeting, Gehlot tweeted, “In the meeting told CP (Congress president) Sonia ji that the state is completely prepared to handle the latest surge of Covid & we are fully confident of managing the crisis successfully like we did before. Cases are monitored on a daily basis. Based on this research & analysis, the roadmap is prepared accordingly.” However, the chief minister complained of vaccine shortage. The Congress leadership held the government responsible for the shortage as it exports vaccines at the expense of the people, it alleged.
The chief minister said the Prime Minister called for a ‘Tika Utsav’ from April 11-14, but without availability of vaccine how could the vaccination drive be carried out, he asked. He said the Union minister’s statement of sufficient quantities of vaccines are available to the state is against facts.
He said till April 6, the Centre had given 1,07,40,860 vaccine doses for people over 60 years of which 2,15,180 doses were given to the armed forces. He said the state got 91,55,370 doses till April 8, and 4,34,888 got wasted which is less than half of the 10% wastage estimated by the Centre.
He claimed that daily an average of 5.18 lakh vaccinations were being done in the state. But he said the state was left with only 5 lakh doses of vaccine on Friday night and the next slot of 3.83 lakh doses were expected to arrive on April 12. So he said the government was forced to curtail the target of vaccination from Saturday.
Same is the situation in various other states. He said no one should play politics on vaccination, but the central government had to accept the fact that there is real shortage of vaccines instead of blaming the states.
After the meeting, Gehlot tweeted, “In the meeting told CP (Congress president) Sonia ji that the state is completely prepared to handle the latest surge of Covid & we are fully confident of managing the crisis successfully like we did before. Cases are monitored on a daily basis. Based on this research & analysis, the roadmap is prepared accordingly.” However, the chief minister complained of vaccine shortage. The Congress leadership held the government responsible for the shortage as it exports vaccines at the expense of the people, it alleged.
The chief minister said the Prime Minister called for a ‘Tika Utsav’ from April 11-14, but without availability of vaccine how could the vaccination drive be carried out, he asked. He said the Union minister’s statement of sufficient quantities of vaccines are available to the state is against facts.
He said till April 6, the Centre had given 1,07,40,860 vaccine doses for people over 60 years of which 2,15,180 doses were given to the armed forces. He said the state got 91,55,370 doses till April 8, and 4,34,888 got wasted which is less than half of the 10% wastage estimated by the Centre.
He claimed that daily an average of 5.18 lakh vaccinations were being done in the state. But he said the state was left with only 5 lakh doses of vaccine on Friday night and the next slot of 3.83 lakh doses were expected to arrive on April 12. So he said the government was forced to curtail the target of vaccination from Saturday.
Same is the situation in various other states. He said no one should play politics on vaccination, but the central government had to accept the fact that there is real shortage of vaccines instead of blaming the states.
