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AMN / NEW DELHI

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has written a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with Corona pandemic.

In his letter Dr Singh has said that the key to our fight against COVID19 must be ramping up the vaccination effort. He said one must not look at absolute numbers but the total percentage of population vaccinated.

Dr Singh said, at this moment of public health emergency, the Central Government must proactively support vaccine producers to expand their manufacturing facilities by providing funds and other concessions.

The former prime minister also asked the Centre to tell about the Covid vaccine orders placed for the next six months, and how these will be distributed to the states.

The Congress leader suggested that the Centre may retain 10 per cent for distribution based on emergency needs “but other than that, states should have a clear signal of likely availability so that they can plan their roll out.” He added that the states should be given some flexibility to define categories of frontline workers who can be vaccinated even if they are below 45 years.

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