Punjab Health Minister makes controversial statement says "Not a big deal if 1 lakh vaccine doses are wasted..."
Punjab Health Minister makes controversial statement says
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Chandigarh: The corona epidemic has created a huge stir in every corner of the world. On the one hand, the top leadership of the Congress party is attacking the Central government over the export of corona doses from the country while on the other hand, the party leader is making insensitive statements on the wastage of corona doses in the country. Punjab Congress government health minister Balbir Sidhu has said that "even if 1 lakh or one lakh 60 thousand out of 30 lakh vaccine doses are damaged in Punjab, it is not a big deal. Punjab ranks third among the states that destroy corona doses across the country.

When he was questioned about the waste of corona, he replied so. In Punjab, 25 till 7 am on Wednesday. More than 95 lakh people have been vaccinated against the vaccine. Today, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has raised a question on vaccine exports from India. Priyanka Gandhi has said that more than 6 crore vaccine doses were exported from the country when only 3-4 crore people were vaccinated in the country due to January to March.

The Punjab government is also continuously demanding an increased supply of vaccines from the Centre. Health Minister Balbir Sidhu has said that he has demanded from the Centre that the state should have at least 15 lakh vaccine dose stocks, Balbir Sidhu said, the 24-hour vaccine stock was left yesterday and 2 lakh doses are expected today. He said Punjab has the capacity to vaccinate 3 lakh people per day. On the success of the vaccine, he said that about 80 percent of the front-line workers in the state were vaccinated, some of whom were infected again but the mortality rate was zero.

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