Sonia: Expand classes eligible for vaccination

Congress president Sonia Gandhi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, asking the federal government to broaden the classes eligible for vaccination on the idea of want and publicity, fairly than age. She additionally referred to as for gear, devices, medicines and assist infrastructure required to cope with the disaster to be exempted from GST.
Sonia in her letter mentioned that “vaccines are our foremost hope” however “sadly, most of the states, including those ruled by the BJP and its allies, are left with a stock of just 3 to 5 days”.
“While it will be necessary on one hand to substantially ramp up our domestic production capacity, it will also be prudent to allow emergency use authorization of all the vaccine candidates that have the required clearances, without any further delay. Accordingly, with enhanced availability, categories eligible for vaccination should be expanded on the basis of need and exposure rather than just age,” Sonia wrote.
She recommended that the variety of Covid-19 vaccines allotted to a state be primarily based on the prevalence and projection of the virus in that individual state.
She wrote that “even ventilators, oxymeters and oxygen cylinders presently attract GST, as do key life-saving drugs like Remdesivir and Dexamethazone”.
Meanwhile, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in a video message focused the Prime Minister, asking him to “stop event baazi” and supply vaccines to those that want them.