Highlighting that the provision of COVID vaccines to West Bengal from the Government of India has been “scare and erratic”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging that the State wants to vaccinate 2.7 crore individuals and urgently wants 5.4 crore doses of vaccines.
“We request your urgent intervention to ensure that the State gets its requirement of vaccine doses fulfilled at the earliest,” Ms. Banerjee mentioned in her letter.
Ms. Banerjee identified that she has written to on February 24, 2021 asking that the State be allowed to buy vaccines instantly with its funds, however was but to the get requisite clearance but.
The Chief Minister in her communication factors out that that variety of COVID circumstances within the State has started to improve sharply notably in view of “coming of large number of outsiders to the State for election campaign and other purposes at the behest of some political parties”.
Ms Banerjee, in quite a lot of public assembly, has mentioned the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are to be blamed if the COVID circumstances within the State rise.
On April 17, the State has registered a file 7,713 infections prior to now 24 hours and 34 deaths. The surge of COVID-19 circumstances continues within the State because it in midst of a marathon eight section elections with three phases but to go.
On Sunday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a number of public conferences with giant variety of individuals within the Assembly seats going to polls within the later phases. The Trinamool Congress has urged the ECI on clubbing of the remaining phases of polls. The ECI has barred political events from campaigning in night and elevated the silent time forward of each section from 48 hours to 72 hours
In the letter the Chief Minister has cited that the provision of important medicines like Remedesvir and Tocilizumab ( Actemera) is extraordinarily scarce and unsure at the moment. “We need around 6,000 vials of Remedesvir and 1,000 vials of Tocilizumab daily. However, at present only 1,000 vials of Remedesvir is available daily and no fresh supply of Tocilizumab is coming,” the letter states, urging the Prime Minister to guarantee regular provide of important medicines as quickly as attainable.
The third problem which the Chief Minister highlighted in her communication was the provision of oxygen which she mentioned have to be assured and sure. Ms Banerjee mentioned the general public sector SAIL is assembly the State’s want in the intervening time and urged the PM to instruct them to preserve regular provides.
Seeking cooperation and assist from the Prime Minister, Ms. Banerjee mentioned the State authorities is “willing to extend its resources to the fullest in tandem with the Centre to tackle the pandemic which the country is facing and to overcome it”.

২৪X৭ নিউজ বেঙ্গল এ সবার আগে পড়ুন ব্রেকিং নিউজ। থাকছে দৈনিক টাটকা খবর, খবরের লাইভ আপডেট। সবচেয়ে ভরসাযোগ্য বাংলা এবং ইংলিশ খবর পড়ুন ২৪X৭ নিউজ বেঙ্গল এর ওয়েবসাইটে। নিয়মিত খবরে থাকতে লাইক করুন ফেসবুকে ও ফলো করুন টুইটারে।
‘রঙ’ ছাড়া সংবাদ খুঁজে পাওয়া কঠিন। কোন খবরটা ‘খাচ্ছে’? সেটাই কি শেষ কথা? নাকি আসল সত্যিটার নাম ‘সংবাদ’! ‘ব্রেকিং’ আর প্রাইম টাইমের পিছনে দৌড়তে গিয়ে দেওয়ালে পিঠ ঠেকেছে সত্যিকারের সাংবাদিকতার। অর্থ আর চোখ রাঙানিতে হাত বাঁধা সাংবাদিকদের। কিন্তু, গণতন্ত্রের চতুর্থ স্তম্ভে ‘রঙ’ লাগানোয় বিশ্বাসী নই আমরা। আর মৃত্যুশয্যা থেকে ফিরিয়ে আনতে পারেন আপনারাই। সোশ্যালের ওয়াল জুড়ে বিনামূল্যে পাওয়া খবরে ‘ফেক’ তকমা জুড়ে যাচ্ছে না তো? আসলে পৃথিবীতে কোনও কিছুই ‘ফ্রি’ নয়। তাই, আপনার দেওয়া একটি টাকাও অক্সিজেন জোগাতে পারে। স্বতন্ত্র সাংবাদিকতার স্বার্থে আপনার স্বল্প অনুদানও মূল্যবান। পাশে থাকুন।
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