‘Would not he learn?’ Ministers slam Rahul Gandhi’s comment about vaccine shortages.
After Rahul Gandhi raised questions on the scarcity of vaccines but once more, the central management has lashed out at him and requested if the Congress chief has not learn the printed “details”.
“July has come, the vaccine has not arrived,” Gandhi wrote on Twitter Friday.
Replying to this, Union well being minister Harsh Vardhan accused him of “vanity”.
“Simply yesterday, I put out details on vaccine availability for the month of July. What’s Rahul Gandhiji’s downside? Does he not learn? Does he not perceive? There isn’t a vaccine for the virus of vanity and ignorance!! Congress should consider a management overhaul!” Vardhan took to Twitter to say.
However, Union minister Piyush Goyal knowledgeable that 12 crore vaccine doses can be made obtainable in July and that states have already been knowledgeable of the event upfront.
“120 million doses of the vaccine can be obtainable in July, which is totally different from the availability for personal hospitals. States have been knowledgeable concerning the provide 15 days upfront,” mentioned Goyal.
“Rahul Gandhi ought to perceive that the show of petty politics isn’t acceptable right now as a substitute of seriousness within the combat towards corona,” he added.
Gandhi has been a critic of the federal government ever since states began flagging a scarcity of vaccines. He has urged the federal government to organize for the third wave of coronavirus by inoculating the residents on war-footing.
Forward of the newest Mann Ki Baat episode by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress chief urged him to finish the scarcity of doses.
“Please simply vaccinate all individuals within the nation, even in case you do ‘Mann Ki Baat’ after that,” Gandhi mentioned.
Following this, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accused the Congress chief of “spreading lies”.
“Prime Minister Modi ensured free vaccination for all within the nation however you (Rahul Gandhi) are spreading lies, misconceptions and placing individuals’s lives in peril. Whereas PM spoke to villagers of Dulariya, counselled them to take the vaccine and cleared their doubts relating to vaccination,” Chouhan mentioned whereas reacting to Congress MP’s criticism.
Scarcity of doses
A number of states have reported a paucity of vaccines, in flip halting the vaccination drive for a couple of days.
The Odisha authorities on Thursday halted the vaccination drive in 16 districts as a consequence of a scarcity of Covishield doses.
The federal government was not in a position to conduct the immunisation programmes in 11 districts on Wednesday because of the shortage of Covishield doses.
Additional, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) has mentioned that Covid-19 vaccinations can be carried out solely between 2 pm and 5 pm at a restricted variety of centres within the metropolis on Friday.
