Halt vaccine export, Rahul Gandhi writes to Prime Minister

As the federal government grapples to include the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to position a right away moratorium on the export of vaccines, quick monitor approval of different vaccines and open up vaccination to everybody who wants it.
Criticising the PM, Gandhi requested whether or not the export of vaccines was an effort to garner “publicity”.
Referring to the PM’s enchantment to the chief ministers to organise a vaccine competition from April 11 to 14, he tweeted that scarcity of vaccines amid the rise in Covid-19 instances is a really critical difficulty.
“India had the first-mover advantage in vaccination and yet we are moving at a snail’s pace. Historically, India has achieved abundant experience in designing and executing some of the world’s biggest vaccination programmes. Yet in the present case, we have managed to fully vaccinate less than 1% of the population in 3 months…” the letter stated.

“While our nation is facing vaccine starvation, more than 6 crore doses of vaccines have been exported… Was the export of vaccines also an ‘oversight’, like many other decisions of this government, or an effort to garner publicity at the cost of our citizens?”