Mamata Banerjee, Bhupesh Baghel to skip PM Modi s COVID-review meet with CMs
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel will not be attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi s COVID-review meet with chief ministers of all states and UTs on Wednesday. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to skip the meeting of all Chief Ministers with PM Modi today as she has pre-scheduled election meetings, TMC sources told news agency ANI.
CM of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel not attending the interaction with PM Modi on COVID situation and vaccination: Sources ANI (@ANI) March 17, 2021
In the meeting, PM Modi is expected to raise the issue of states where the virus appears to be taking hold once again, and is likely to stress on the need to accelerate vaccinations.
Updated Mar 17, 2021 | 12:43 IST
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope in a letter to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had urged the Centre to supply 20 lakh doses per week to the state. Maharashtra has been the worst hit by the coronavirus infection in the country
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56 per cent vaccines remained unused. Now, Shiv Sena MP asks for more vaccines for the state: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar First mismanagement of pandemic now poor administration of vaccines
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope has requested supply of 20 lakh doses per week to the state
New Delhi: A day after Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope requested 2.20 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Centre for the ongoing inoculation drive in the state, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar accused the Shiv Sena-led MVA government of poor administration of vaccines.
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New Delhi: Two figures and a looming deadline have raised a question around India’s Covid vaccination drive.
India has administered roughly as many Covid vaccine doses within the country as it has sent for commercial exports. However, even as the earliest batches of the Covid vaccines are set to expire next month, the government refuses to allow domestic commercial sales.
Covishield and Covaxin, the two vaccines being used in India, were granted emergency use authorisation on 3 January. Since 16 January, when the Covid vaccination drive was rolled out in India, 3.48 crore doses have been administered in the country. Meanwhile, India has commercially exported 3.39 crore doses to countries around the world since the first of these batches went out to Morocco and Brazil on 22 January.
Amid Maharashtra s worsening COVID-19 situation, virus variant with double mutation detected in state
The institutes working on a project under the NCDC have alerted the Union health ministry to label the variant with the double mutation as a likely variant of concern (VOC).
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A health worker sanitizes the baggage of passengers as a precaution against COVID-19 at a long distance train station in Mumbai. (Photo | AP)
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NEW DELHI: Scientific institutes tasked with genome sequencing of the Covid-19 virus in the country have alerted the Centre on a virus variant with double mutation in Maharashtra, whose possible role in the surge in cases is being probed, this newspaper has gathered.
Raj Thackeray s MNS asks if Maharashtra govt is using COVID-19 numbers to hide its own inefficiency
Mirror Online / Updated: Mar 16, 2021, 13:29 IST
Amid a spike in
MNS) has raised questions over the rising numbers of positive patients in the state.
The development comes on the heels of Health Minister Rajesh Tope saying that lockdown will be announced in districts of Maharashtra that will report more number of
COVID-19 cases.
In a tweet, MNS leader
Sandeep Deshpande raised doubts and also asked if the government was using the COVID numbers to hide its own inefficiency. COVID-19 cases are not increasing in neighbouring Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Does Corona love Maharashtra or Maharashtra government loves Corona? Deshpande asked in a tweet.