What you need to know about India’s baffling new vaccine policy
What you need to know about India’s baffling new vaccine policy
The new policy allows the Centre to claim that it has done what the states asked for, while allowing it to shift blame for shortages or high prices.
As stories of the brutal second wave of Covid-19 began emerging from all over the country last week, these were two of the many questions that emerged: Where was Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government? And what were the calculations behind his government’s massive vaccination campaign that seemed to be running out of steam rather than picking up pace?
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(Bloomberg) India posted the world’s biggest one-day jump in coronavirus cases, with the number surging beyond 300,000 as a deadlier second wave shows no signs of abating in the South Asian country and leaves hospitals crammed with patients and short of oxygen.
Singapore and Hong Kong called off plans to announce an air travel bubble, people familiar said, while the southeast Asian city state is putting more than 1,100 migrant workers into quarantine as more virus cases were discovered there. Tokyo asked the Japanese government to declare a state of emergency in the capital, as it prepares to host the Olympics this year.
Telangana Health Minister presses alarm bell, calls out issues with Remdesivir and oxygen allocation
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Remdesivir is manufactured by at least two companies in and around Hyderabad. Till Wednesday, the State was procuring it directly.
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Telangana Minister for Health Medical and Family Welfare Eatala Rajendar. File
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Remdesivir is manufactured by at least two companies in and around Hyderabad. Till Wednesday, the State was procuring it directly.
Though Telangana has placed order for over 4 lakh vials of Remdesivir, the State was allotted only 21551 vials of the antiviral drug for ten days (April 21-30). Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender who pressed alarm bells over crucial COVID-19 resources, has called out central government’s discrimination in allotting the antiviral drug, oxygen, vaccines, to the State.
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(Bloomberg) India reported a record 314,835 additional Covid-19 cases, the biggest one-day gain seen in any country in the course of the pandemic, with a further 2,104 deaths as the crisis leaves hospitals crammed with patients and short of oxygen.
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Singapore and Hong Kong called off plans to announce an air travel bubble, people familiar said, while the Straits Times said the city is moving hundreds of migrant workers into quarantine due to infections at a dormitory.
Tokyo asked the Japanese government to declare a state of emergency in the capital, as it prepares to host the Olympics this year. France and Greece plan to ease some curbs, while Germany’s lower house of parliament backed a controversial lockdown law.
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Tweeting his decision, Mr. Modi said, “Tomorrow, will be chairing high-level meetings to review the prevailing COVID-19 situation. Due to that, I would not be going to West Bengal.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his election rallies for Friday, looking at the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases in the country which topped 3,15,000 cases on Thursday. He will, instead be holding meetings on COVID-19 management with with Chief Ministers of high burden states, and with leading oxygen manufacturers of the country.
Tweeting his decision, Prime Minister Modi said, “Tomorrow, will be chairing high-level meetings to review the prevailing COVID-19 situation. Due to that, I would not be going to West Bengal”. He was scheduled to address four meetings including one at Shaheed Minar grounds in Kolkata. There was some talk that he might hold a virtual rally on Friday but BJP sources refused to confirm the same.