All 400 coronavirus vaccination centres for the 18 to 44 age group in Delhi have been shut down, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday. He also said that the Centre was responsible for the acute shortage of vaccine doses.
Sisodia said that out of the 650 centres for the 45-plus age group, the places administering Covaxin were shut down. Only those administering Covishield were functional.
The Delhi deputy chief minister said that the Aam Aadmi Party government had reached out to Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson for vaccines after the Centre did not give them more shots and asked them to procure it through a global tender.
“The central government has made vaccines a joke in India,” the deputy chief minister said.
Sisodia alleged the Centre had failed to manage and sustain its vaccination drive. “It was the Centre’s responsibility to make vaccines available to the entire country, but it chose to sell doses to others first merely for image…