Centre perpetrating vax scam: AAP

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Centre perpetrating vax scam: AAP

Saturday, 29 May 2021 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

Accusing the Centre of favouring Bharat Biotech and the Serum Institute of India, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday said that the scarcity of vaccines was purely fabricated to favour these manufacturers.

Vaccines are available and being administered by private hospitals at high rates but the same are not available to the State Governments which are doing it free of cost, AAP senior leader Atishi said.

“Lakhs of lives have been lost in the face of the second wave of Covid-19. Even religious and social organisations came forward to aid people but the Centre continues to play dirty politics at the cost of peoples’ lives.

“The lives of so many young people would have been saved if the Centre would not have indulged in the downright vaccine scam. Shortage of vaccines is only in Government schools.  Had the Centre cleared the WHO-approved vaccines that are available in the international market and allowed their import, lives would have been saved,” she added.

Atishi said, “This is the fifth day that the entire vaccination programme for the youth has remained halted in Government schools.

Today, not a single school is able to administer vaccines because of the shortage of jabs. On the contrary, private hospitals have been vaccinating people at such a fast speed because the Centre continues to supply and facilitate enough stock of vaccines to them.”

“Many vaccines are being approved across the world. The Pfizer vaccine has been approved in 85 countries, the Moderna vaccine has been approved in 46 countries and J&J is approved in 41 countries.

“Then why have these three vaccines not been given emergency authorization? If the WHO can approve them, why can’t India? This clearly shows that the Centre has created this artificial scarcity to favour the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech,” she alleged.

AAP national spokesperson Raghav Chadha also said that while citizens and State Governments are working hand-in-hand to combat the second wave of Covid-19, it appears that a scam is being perpetrated under the garb of the vaccination programme by the BJP-ruled Central Government.

“The BJP-ruled Central Government is trying to loot the citizens of India by forcing them to take vaccines from private centres at much higher prices.  He said that if a family has five members, the family will have to shell out a minimum of `10,000 should they take both doses at private centres,” he added.

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