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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday pulled up the Centre for exporting Covid-19 vaccines instead of vaccinating the country’s citizens on a priority basis and demanded a “sense of urgency” in the matter.
Making its observation on the matter, the High Court said that Covid-19 vaccines are being donated and sold to foreign countries, while the people of India are still to get vaccinated against the virus.
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday pulled up the Centre for exporting Covid-19 vaccines instead of vaccinating the country’s citizens on a priority basis and demanded a “sense of urgency” in the matter.
Making its observation on the matter, the High Court said that Covid-19 vaccines are being donated and sold to foreign countries, while the people of India are still to get vaccinated against the virus.
The High Court further questioned the Centre’s rationale behind keeping strict control over class of persons being vaccinated against COVID-19 currently.
The observation comes as Phase 2 of the inoculation drive entered its fourth day today with persons above the age of 60 and those between the age group of 45-60 with comorbidities getting the Covid vaccine jab.
A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said the two institutes– Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech — have more capacity to provide the vaccines but it seems that they are not exploiting it fully.
“We are not utilising it fully.
We are either donating it to foreign countries or selling it to foreign countries and are not vaccinating our own people.
So there has to be that sense of responsibility and urgency,” the bench said.