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He blamed Maharashtra government s failure to control infections
He targeted Chhattisgarh government for refusing high mortality rate
New Delhi: With the number of COVID-19 cases rising rapidly across the country, the Centre on Wednesday (April 7) hit out at Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh governments over their alleged failure to control the spread of infection in their states.
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said that the allegations of vaccine shortage were utterly baseless and that it was an attempt by the state governments to divert attention from their own failures.
“Deplorable attempts by some state governments to distract attention from their failures and spread panic among the people,” Dr Harsh Vardhan was quoted as saying by ANI.
Centre Asks Maharashtra To Take Corrective Action To Step Up Vaccination Centre Asks Maharashtra To Take Corrective Action To Step Up Vaccination You are kindly requested to undertake necessary corrective actions immediately for improving the performance of COVID-19 vaccination drive in your state/UT, the Centre wrote to Maharashtra The primary objective of vaccination is to protect the healthcare system, the Centre said.
New Delhi:
Maharashtra has been asked to take corrective action to improve its performance in vaccinating its healthcare and frontline workers. The Centre, which issued the order, had earlier accused the state of spreading panic about vaccine shortage to divert attention from its poor vaccination record.
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Health Minister Harsh Vardhan expressed concerns about the Covid situation in Chhattisgarh. (File)
New Delhi:
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today said that 80 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Punjab have UK variant of the virus and said that the reasons behind the surge in fresh infections could be marriages, local body elections and farmers protests. In Punjab, 80 per cent of the cases due to the UK variant have been found and it has been confirmed by genome sequencing. It has come to notice that this surge in cases is event-driven like big fat weddings, local body elections, farmer protest, etc could also play a possible role, Mr Vardhan said, during his meeting with Health Ministers of 11 states to review the COVID-19 situation.
The pandemic has worsened in the country.There is a serious rise in cases, Paul told reporters.
India added 96,982 new infections on Tuesday to reach a total of 12.7 million cases. It also registered 446 new deaths taking its toll to 165,547.
So why are cases rising in India? The spurt comes after months of gradual decline, which prompted scientists to ask why cases were dropping when there was no such trend around the world.
Global coronavirus figures are not encouraging either.
Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed 3 million on Tuesday and a global resurgence of COVID-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the globe. Brazil accounts for a quarter of worldwide deaths every day.