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India s government brought COVID-19 crisis on itself
Posted : 2021-05-13 17:00
The Indian government is primarily responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the nation.
I am hearing daily accounts from my mother in India about relatives falling sick, getting hospitalized and worse. (My mother, thankfully, is among the tiny percentage of Indians who are fully vaccinated.)
Since mid-April, India has been leading the world in new cases and deaths, with around 400,000 infections and 4,000 fatalities reported on a daily basis. Both categories are undercounted.
The media reports are almost unbearable, with accounts of patients literally gasping to death due to lack of oxygen supply. A huge portion of the blame for all this suffering lies with right-wing populist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the administration he has helmed for the past seven years.
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Harsh Vardhan to meet Health Ministers of states to review Covid-19 vaccination drive
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan will chair a meeting with Health Ministers of states to review the vaccination drive. Ministers of states that are lagging behind in vaccination against Covid-19 will attend the meeting.
The meeting has been convened after several states like Delhi and Maharashtra flagged a shortage of vaccine amid skyrocketing cases of infection. Today s meeting will be attended by Health Ministers of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Telangana, news agency ANI reported.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Health Ministry appealed to states to prioritise vaccinating those due for second dose of Covid-19 vaccine and reserve at least 70 per cent of the shots supplied from the central pool for the purpose.
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Vaccination big weapon in fight against COVID pandemic: Harsh Vardhan.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday that vaccination is a big weapon in the fight against Covid-19.
Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday interacted with the health ministers and principal secretaries/additional chief secretaries of eight states/UT in the presence of Union Minister of State for Health, Ashwini Kumar Choubey.
The eight states/UT included Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Telangana, all depicting a rise in the number of daily cases with growing positivity rate.
At the meeting, Harsh Vardhan highlighted the trajectory of Covid in these states/UT and brought to their attention the consequent stress on the medical infrastructure.