Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday accused “politicians” of making “misleading” statements and creating panic among people by raising false alarms about vaccine shortage in the country.
In the first of a series of tweets posted in Hindi, Mandaviya said, “To ensure vaccination in Government and private hospitals, the Centre provided 1,14.6 million doses to State Governments in June. For July, the availability of doses has been increased to 135 million.”
In another tweet, he said that the Union Government, on June 19 itself, informed the States how many vaccine doses will be made available to each of them.
“After this, on June 27 and July 13, the States were informed in advance about the number of doses available, in batches, each day for the first and second fortnights of July.