The former chief minister and Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath has made a 12-point suggestion for control of the pandemic in the state.
Kamal Nath wrote a letter to Chouhan in response to the chief minister’s telephonic discussion with him. The Congress leader has called for removal of the age bar for vaccination and demanded free vaccines for everyone. “The situation of the state is very worrying and there is a need for a joint strategy of intensive and fast vaccination drive and ensuring COVID-19 appropriate behaviour,” he said in his letter. He made a 12-point suggestion to ensure this.
In his suggestions, Nath asked that the age bar of 45 years to get the vaccine shot be removed and suggested that it should be given free to all the citizens. He requested the government to cover such areas from where the patients were coming in large numbers. He suggested that a corona test drive be launched in which the tests could be done at home; he also urged the government to increase the number of rapid antigen tests (RATs). He also requested that the test reports be provided within eight hours and the contact tracing protocols be speeded up. He raised the issue of availability of beds in the state because of the rise in the number of corona-infected patients. He requested that the number of ICU and HDU beds in the hospitals be increased.
Meantime, the chief minister held a virtual cabinet meeting on the COVID-19 situation and interacted with various sections of society, including civil society, industrialists, traders, doctors, health workers, journalists and others from the sit-in venue.
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