Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday said not even a single youth has been vaccinated in the national Capital during last one week due to vaccine shortage. Presenting the vaccine bulletin, AAP senior leader Atishi said due to shortage of vaccine, youth of Delhi are forced to get vaccinated at private hospitals at higher cost.

“At the time of such a crisis, the BJP-led Central Government is permitting supply of sufficient stock to private hospitals but not to State Governments which are vaccinating people for free,” she said.

The AAP leader also said, “It is a matter of pride for Delhi that more than 50 per cent of the category of 45 plus population  has been vaccinated. This will steadily help us reach herd immunity and protect the people of Delhi.

“The Delhi Government has not received a single dose of vaccine for the past 15 days from both Bharat Biotech and the Serum Institute of India to inoculate the youth.

When we tried to procure vaccines by giving ` 1.5 crores as advance, then it was made clear by both these companies that they will sell vaccines only to those who are decided by the Central government ,” he said. 

Atishi also appealed to the Central government to make the vaccines available for the youth of Delhi as soon as possible.  She further said that these vaccines are available for the youth only in the private hospitals and the price of the vaccine is either `900 or ` 1000 in some places to `1200 and more in the others.”

 “Today the private hospitals in Delhi are vaccinating more than the Government hospitals and centers because the vaccines are being made available only to them. It is our question to the Central Government as to what kind of a scam this is such that the one who is vaccinating for free does not have any vaccines and that you do not tell Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute to provide vaccines to the State Governments but you permit them to sell the vaccines to private hospitals .”

“The doses of Covaxin are administered only to those who are to administer the second dose because many people had been administered the first dose but were waiting for the second.

We have 14 days of stock in Covishield. So, if we are to look at the total vaccination in Delhi, 53, 42,386 people have been vaccinated in Delhi out of which 41,38, 523 people have been given the first dose and more than 12 lakh people are such who have been given both the doses,” she added.