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vaccine against cOvid-19 : india first!

>> Continued from previous page... economic activities have nose- sure vaccination of HCWs on sufficient number of vaccina-
ing the vaccine available on pri- dived and the economy has still priority, with FLWs to follow in tion sites have been identified
ority to the Health Care Work- not recovered from this shock.” the next phase. The State has and all logistics tied up. An
ers (HCWs) of the State and “It would be difficult for the adequate capacity for storing adequate number of vaccina-
Central Government in Punjab. poorer sections of society to pay as well as transportation of the tors have been identified, and
At the same time, he ear- for the vaccination,” he said. vaccine,” he wrote. trained and sufficient number
nestly requested him to consid- “All steps are in place to en- He further added that a of teams have been mobilized
er providing free vaccine to the and trained to manage the vac-
poor population with a view to cination sessions.
lessen the disease burden and Pointing out that “the
also ensuring a check on the COVID-19 pandemic has been
further spread of transmission an unparalleled disaster in living
thereby allowing more econom- memory, and heavy expenditure
ic activity. had to be incurred in our corona-
Referring to reports cit- virus response,” the Chief Min-
ing some central government ister further wrote that his gov-
sources that apart from the ernment had already requested
HCWs and Front-Line Workers the Centre that the accumulat-
(FLWs), the remaining popula- ed balances with the state in the
tion may not be provided free State Disaster Relief Fund may
vaccine, Captain Amarinder be permitted to be used as nec-
pointed out in his letter that essary for COVID-19 response.
“the people of the State have Health workers gesture during the launch of Covid-19 vaccine drive, at G B “The MHA may kindly approve
gone through a very difficult Pant Hospital in New Delhi on Saturday. (ANI) this to allow pending payments
time due to Covid-19 wherein to be cleared,” he urged the PM.

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