TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ In the first ever such interactions with District Magistrates (DMs) of 46 high Covid-19 burden districts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Central government is working on a fortnightly schedule for vaccine supply to streamline vaccination and prevent wastage.
Interacting over video conference with these DMs across eight States with Chief Ministers of these regions, the Prime Minister told them, Union Health Ministry is continuously streamlining the arrangements and procedures regarding vaccination to larger strategy.
The next round of interactions will be with District Magistrates of 54 districts across 10 States, on May 20. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister said constant efforts are being made to increase the supply of coronavirus vaccine on a very large scale. Modi further said that vaccination is a powerful means of fighting Covid, so we have to unitedly remove every illusion related to it.
Noting that there are three main weapons that we have in our armour to check the contagion. “These are delineating local containment zones, aggressive testing and giving correct and accurate information to the local populace especially in terms of availability of medical resources like hospital beds,” Modi said.
