-The Hindu Health, Home dept. officials told of surge in cases, shortage of facilities. Centre has informed all the eight Union Territories that the next three weeks were crucial. The UT administrations including the Delhi Government “were advised to plan in advance for three weeks.” Delhi raised the issue of shortage of beds at a meeting held by the Union Secretaries of Home and Health to review the status of COVID-19 management in...
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India’s decision to liberalise vaccine sales likely to push up prices – and block access to millions -R Ramakumar
-Scroll.in Besides, by making states responsible for buying vaccines, Modi’s government has deftly deflected possible criticism for future shortages. Over the past few weeks, the second wave of Covid-19 infections and the acute shortage of vaccines had led to considerable public anger against the government. Despite being fully aware of a potential vaccine shortage, the Union government had held back permissions for new vaccines, such as the Sputnik V, to be used in...
More »Coronavirus: Over 2,000 COVID-19 deaths on single day
-The Hindu 2.93 lakh fresh infections reported. For the first time, more than 2,000 COVID-19 deaths were registered in a single day in India (without considering backlogs) on Tuesday (April 20). As many as 2,007 deaths and 2,93,534 cases were recorded in the country. The country has so far reported a total of 1,56,08,423 cases and 1,82,557 deaths. The figures do not include cases and deaths in Ladakh. The data is sourced from covid19india.org,...
More »How India landed in Covid vaccine mess - GS Mudur
-The Telegraph The Centre had last November announced a Rs 900-crore project but none of this money went to either Covishield or Covaxin India’s shortage of Covid-19 vaccines that precludes immediate inoculation for all adults is rooted in the Narendra Modi government’s lack of funding for key vaccines under development and evaluation, experts have said. The experts, who have tracked global vaccine efforts, said the Indian government’s lack of investments contrasted with the...
More »Manmohan Singh writes to PM Modi, gives 5 suggestions to tackle Covid-19 crisis
-The Indian Express As India reels under the second wave of coronavirus, Manmohan Singh said people are now beginning to wonder when their lives will get back to normal and argued “there are many things we must do to fight the epidemic but a big part of this effort must be ramping up the Vaccination programme.” Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to...
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