Delhi leader says Indian government vaccine procurement policies are a joke
From CNN’s Esha Mitra in New Delhi and CNN’s Amanda Sealy
Delhi’s deputy chief minister said the Indian central government s vaccine rollout is “a joke, saying international companies including Pfizer have declined their separate requests for vaccines.
“What kind of a joke is being made of vaccines,” Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said in an online address Monday, while discussing the central government s efforts at vaccine procurement and distribution.
“If we ask the central government for vaccines from Indian companies, they say they will give us only 4 lakh (400,000 doses),” Sisodia said. The population of Delhi was more than 11 million in the last census in 2011.
Fewer than half of Americans are now social distancing, poll finds
From CNN s Naomi Thomas
People walk on the Coney Island beach boardwalk in New York City on May 19. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
Fewer than half of Americans social distanced in the last week the first time the percent has gone below 50% since the Axios-Ipsos poll began. The new poll data finds that 44% of Americans social distanced last week, down 12 percentage points from two weeks ago.
The poll, published Tuesday, was conducted May 21 to 24 and made up of a nationally representative sample of 1,102 US adults.
Those over the age of 50 and the vaccinated are the groups where some of the biggest changes are taking place in, but “regardless of gender, region of the country, partisanship, or race, people are socially distancing less than before.”
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Delhi leader says federal government vaccine procurement policies are a joke May 25, 2021
India reported 196,427 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the lowest single-day rise in cases since April 14. Courtesy file photo
NEW DELHI India reported 196,427 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the lowest single-day rise in cases since April 14, according to a CNN tally of figures from the Indian Ministry of Health.
This marks a decline from the first week of May when the country was reporting more than 300,000 cases daily.
India also reported 3,511 fatalities on Tuesday, the lowest single-day death toll since May 4, according to figures from the Indian Ministry of Health.
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