Bharat Biotech refuses to supply covacin to Delhi, closes center: Sisodia

- If the government does not export 65 million vaccines, every citizen of Delhi and Mumbai can be given both doses of vaccine

New delhi date. Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia during a press conference on Wednesday once again accused the Center of obstructing vaccine supply. He reiterated that the central government was still deciding which states would be given how many vaccines. Many centers in Delhi have been closed due to non-availability of covacin.

According to Manish Sisodia, the stock of covacin near Delhi has completely run out. As a result, they have had to close more than 100 coxsackie centers in 17 schools. Kovexin's company has written a letter to him stating in no uncertain terms that he could not give more vaccines as he had to be given the vaccine on the instructions of the central government. Delhi had ordered 67 lakh vaccines but at present the supply of covacin to Delhi has been stopped.

Manish Sisodia said he had ordered 1.34 crore vaccine doses to vaccinate all the people of Delhi. It ordered 67 lakh covshields and 67 lakh covacins but the covacs were explicitly denied. He also angrily said that if the government did not export 65 million vaccines, every citizen of Delhi and Mumbai could be given both doses of the vaccine.

Sisodia stressed that he again urged the Center to play the role of a one-nation government. It is not appropriate for the state to go to the international market and issue tenders. But if you don't, the state has to do it. The role of the center is important. It stops exports and takes formulas from vaccine companies to allow other companies to make vaccines so that vaccines can be manufactured on a large scale.