The central government has claimed to have installed 2.22 crore corona vaccines in the entire country in a day. This has been termed as the biggest figure of vaccination in a day after the vaccination campaign started from January. However, the opposition has raised questions on this. The central government has said that till Friday afternoon, 78 crore vaccines had been administered in the country and this figure seemed to be increasing from 80 crore vaccines at the end of the day.
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Health and Family Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been congratulated on his birthday by crossing the figure of 2.20 crore vaccines in one day. He congratulated the health workers of the country for achieving this figure. According to the data of the Center, 23.01 lakh vaccines were given in Karnataka, 20.53 in Bihar, 20.53 in UP, 19.99 in Madhya Pradesh and 16.91 lakh in Gujarat on Friday. Meanwhile, 34,403 new cases of COVID came in the country on Friday. Kerala has the highest number of active cases.
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Many opposition parties including Congress said, the government is engaged in PR stunt
The Center may have claimed to have a record 2.20 crore corona vaccines in a single day, but many opposition parties, including the Congress, have raised questions on this. Opposition parties say that the government was hoarding the vaccine for the last several days to increase the number of vaccines to be administered on Modi’s birthday. Rahul Gandhi has tweeted and said that this speed is needed for the corona vaccination of the country. I hope that at times 21 million vaccines will be administered in a day.
Looking forward to many more days of 2.1 crore #vaccinations.
This pace is what our country needs.— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 18, 2021
Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram said vaccination is not like cutting cake on birthday. Vaccination is a programme, it is a process. It has to be intensified every day, not only on birthdays. He tweeted that one third of the adult population of the country has not yet received the first dose. Only 21% have been fully vaccinated.
Vaccination is not like cutting cake on birthday. Vaccination is a programme, it is a process. It has to be sharpened every day, not only on birthdays.
Serious Thoughts:
a) One third of the adult population has not yet received the first dose.
b) Only 21% have been fully vaccinated— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) September 18, 2021
The CPM has tweeted and said that the BJP government had deliberately slowed down the pace of vaccination so that a record number of vaccinations could be done on the day of PM’s birthday by hoarding the vaccines. The government is playing with people’s lives for cheap PR stunts.
BJP Govt’s deliberately had a slow pace of vaccinations leading up to Modi’s birthday. Effectively hoarding vaccines and playing with people’s health and lives for a cheap PR stunt! https://t.co/Pu4RfcsZEl
— CPI (M) (@cpimspeak) September 18, 2021
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