Allow Covid-19 vaccination for all adults: Delhi govt asks Centre
In the wake of the rising coronavirus cases in India, especially in the national capital, the Delhi government requested the Centre to allow COVID-19 vaccination for all adults in an order to break the chain of transmission.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had written to the Centre that COVID-19 vaccination should be opened for all, at least for adults.
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"We've made two more requests that vaccination should be allowed at least for all adults and secondly, it should be allowed even at camp settings and not only at health care facilities," he said.
The drive was going well in Delhi, Jain said, adding that "we received some vaccines on Wednesday." "We have stock for 4-5 days and we have demanded more and we will get it," said the Delhi Health Minister.
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He further said that "We should fight COVID together."
He referred to the Centre's allegation that there was less vaccination of healthcare workers in Delhi.
"We can also say that there was less vaccination at Centre's hospitals. This isn't an issue, the issue was that we've to vaccinate more and more people soon," he added.
This comes after Manohar Agnani, Additional Secretary, Union Health Ministry, wrote to Principal Secretaries of Health and Family Welfare of Punjab, Delhi and Maharashtra, asking them to undertake necessary corrective actions immediately for improving the COVID-19 vaccination drives in their states/UT.
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