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NEW DELHI â Vaunted as the largest in the world, Indiaâs vaccine program is being hobbled by supply shortages and an abrupt shift in procurement policy that appears to be without parallel, The Washington Post reported May 18. The report said as India confronts a devastating Covid outbreak where thousands are dying each day, the country desperately needs to vaccinate its population as soon as possible. Yet the vaccine drive is stumbling just when it is most crucial, it said. Over the past six weeks, the number of vaccinations per day has fallen by about half, from a high of 4.2 million per day on April 2 to 2 million on May 13. ....
Coronavirus | Compassion must be cornerstone of government policy, former bureaucrats tell Modi Updated: Updated: May 20, 2021 22:57 IST Government must provide free universal vaccination to all citizens, 116 retired All-India and Central services officers write to PM. Share Article Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | Photo Credit: PTI Government must provide free universal vaccination to all citizens, 116 retired All-India and Central services officers write to PM. A group of 116 former bureaucrats wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday calling for compassion in government policy on handling the COVID-19 pandemic, apart from several administrative measures to be taken. The retired All-India and Central services officers, under the banner of Constitutional Conduct Group, wrote: “Despite warnings from the international community and our own scientists, the breathing space between the first and the second waves was not used t ....
Former Civil Servants Slam Modi Govt for Mishandling Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic In an open letter to the prime minister, the signatories have urged Modi to take immediate steps including free universal vaccination for all, ramp up testing, and stop expenditures on Central Vista. Family members of COVID-19 patients wait to fill their empty cylinders with medical oxygen outside an oxygen filling centre, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in coronavirus cases, in Lucknow, Friday, April 23, 2021. Photo: PTI Rights5 hours ago New Delhi: A group of senior retired civil servants including a former Union cabinet secretary, former national security adviser and former Union secretaries for health, agriculture, external affairs, social justice, coal, IT and other ministries have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing displeasure at the seemingly “casual attitude” of the central government to the magnitude of the COVID-19 situatio ....
India News: NEW DELHI: The central government should provide for free vaccination to all Indian citizens and greatly ramp up RT-PCR testing in both rural and urba. ....