Narendra Modi government has mismanaged situation: Sonia Gandhi

Amid the surge in the number of COVID19 cases in the country Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday hit out at the Centre and said it has ldquomismanaged the situationrdquo exported vaccine and allowed a shortage to be created in IndiaGandhirsquos remarks came during a meeting of Congressruled states and partyrsquos ministers from alliance states to review the efforts to fight COVID19 including availability of vaccines access to medicines and ventilators Former party chief Rahul Gandhi also attended the meetSonia Gandhi said ldquoCOVID19 is surging and as the principal Opposition party it is our responsibility to raise issues and push the government to move away from PR tactics and act in the interest of the peoplerdquoIndia on Saturday recorded over 145 lakh fresh cases and 794 deaths in the last 24 hours Several states have red flagged the government over the shortage of vaccineslsquoVaccine for five days onlyrsquoWith Punjab left with only five days of supply 57 lakh vaccine doses at the current levels of vaccinating 8500090000 persons a day Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has urged the Centre to share the schedule for supply of vaccines with the states over the next quarter based on their confirmed supply ordersHoping that the Centre would send fresh batches of vaccine supply soon the Chief Minister said if the state is able to meet its target of two lakh vaccines a day then its current supplies will last only three days He said he had written to the Prime Minister and the Union Health Minister to give confirmed supply schedulesDespite being a slowstarter in vaccination Punjab has vaccinated more than 16 lakh persons at an average of around 8500090000 per day he said during a video conference convened by Gandhi to discuss the COVID19 situationCaptain Amarinder said people in Punjab were still not coming out in large numbers for the vaccination due to the massive anger prevailing against the government of India on the issue of farm lawsSince Punjabrsquos majority population belongs to the agriculture community even the common man is affected by the farmersrsquo agitation he said adding ldquothis anger is impacting the vaccination driverdquoSeven boxers positiveWith seven more top boxers testing positive for COVID19 at Patialarsquos National Institute of Sports NIS the number of positive cases in boxing has gone up to 17A fortnight ago 10 boxers including menrsquos chief coach CA Kuttappa contracted the virus and were isolated ldquoIt might impact Indiarsquos preparation for next monthrsquos Asian Boxing Championships to be held at New Delhirsquos Indira Gandhi Indoor Sports Complex IG Stadiumrdquo a nationallevel boxing coach saidlsquoAndhra needs 25L vaccinesrsquoAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply 25 lakh more vaccine doses He highlighted that the southern state has only two lakh vaccine doses currently and another two lakh doses were expected to arrive on Friday13205926Total number of cases in the country as of Saturday168436Total no of deaths due to the virus in India11990859Patients Recovered and discharged in India as of SaturdayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever