India
oi-Ajay Joseph Raj P
New Delhi, May 07: With West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking a uniform vaccination policy for the country, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday assured her that the Modi government was firm in its resolve to help the state fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but also flagged more than 40 per cent positivity rate in some districts of the state.
In a four-page letter addressed to her and posted on his Twitter timeline, Vardhan congratulated Banerjee for her victory in the recently held assembly elections and also asked her to focus on conducting more tests to detect infections in the state.
Referring to her letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on “further requirements for COVID-19 management in West Bengal”, the minister said the Centre has been supporting each and every state “not just financially, but also through requisite diagnostics, therapeutics, medical…
