I wish govt’s COVID vaccine strategy was ‘mann ki baat’: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi’s tweet got here after High Minister Narendra Modi aired his per month ‘Mann ki baat’ programme at the All India Radio (AIR).(information Record photograph via Amit Mehra)

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday wondered the federal government on its technique for making the COVID-19 vaccine to be had to other folks, announcing he needed it was once the topic of the ‘Mann ki Baat’ programme.

“The query is professional, however how lengthy will India look ahead to the federal government’s resolution? Alas, the Covid vaccine get entry to technique must were the ‘Mann ki baat’,” he mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.

Gandhi’s tweet got here after High Minister Narendra Modi aired his per month ‘Mann ki baat’ programme at the All India Radio (AIR).

Together with his remark, Gandhi shared a information record relating to Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla’s tweet by which he requested the federal government if it had Rs 80,000 crore to be had to distribute the COVID vaccine to the rustic’s inhabitants over the following three hundred and sixty five days.

“I ask this query, as a result of we wish to plan and information, vaccine producers each in India and in another country to provider the desires of our nation relating to procurement and distribution,” Poonawalla had requested on Twitter on Saturday.

SII has signed an settlement to fabricate the possible vaccine evolved via Jenner Institute of Oxford College in collaboration with British-Swedish pharma
corporate AstraZeneca.

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