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21 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
#India #Coronavirus #vaccination drive.
A week after the much-vaunted #TikaUtsav, how is India's vaccination drive going?
The answer is in a word, "badly".
@MoHFW may claim that "India has crossed a Landmark Milestone with > 13 Crore doses given" but the reality is different.
A Press release from @MoHFW and @PIB_India presented the facts in a most misleading and propagandist manner. See pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
The Lancet Commission on Covid19, called for at least 5 million doses per day. See: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef3652…
And this report is authored not by international d--gooders but by Indian experts.

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JayEnAar Profile picture
21 Apr
A twitter thread
Subject: #India's #Covid vaccination strategy
The details of the latest policy changes are in this press release: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa… from @MoHFW_INDIA
Let's ignore for a minute the repeated hagiographic references to #PMModi (see pic).
Presumably, this new policy was thrashed out at NEGVAC. If you have not heard about NEGVAC, then you have not been paying attention to my tweets. NEGVAC is National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 and we first heard about it was here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
Ignore the fact that this is as opaque and shadowy a body as it gets considering that it will be taking decisions that will affect every Indian citizen. Focus on the new vaccine policy. It is "a Liberalised and Accelerated Phase 3 Strategy of Covid-19 Vaccination from 1st May"
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21 Apr
Has anyone heard of #India's NEGVAC - National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 Who are its members? and has it published a strategy? Does it publish its advice to Ministers? I first heard it here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
Here's what I have learned. @ANI tells us here: aninews.in/news/national/…
that this committee was set up in Feb 2021. In a written answer Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey gacve these details.
So it seems it is top-heavy with bureaucrats answerable to the Govt not independent experts basing their advice on science and professional experience. No names given. Also the last in that list is 'technical experts'. Who exactly are they?
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20 Apr
Yes the drop in #newcases reported on 19 April, Monday, was a Sunday effect. on Tue 20 April the #Coronavirus has resumed normal service. The new cases scaled a new record of 2,94,115 cases. It is out of control. cases in last 5 days are:
234002
260895
275063
257003
294115
Here's Maharashtra at the end of Tuesday 20 April.
And here is Gujarat.
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20 Apr
Make no mistake. #PMModi's address to the nation was politucally a #MasterStroke. By a) opening up vaccines to 18+ but leaving that to the States
b) appealing against lockdowns
c) assuring the people of medicines beds and oxygen but askinc States to make the arrangements...
He has passed on the baton of responsibility and accountability to the States, while reserving for himself the credit for any end to the crisis. He has outsourced potential brickbats the people might throw, while keeping for himself any bouquets his #Bhakts are busy preparing.
By guaranteeing migrant workers that centre and States are working to guarantee their jobs and livelihoods if they stay put, any pain they face travelling back to their villages will be blamed on the CMs of States (Mah and Delhi). #Clever but #Cynical.
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20 Apr
Live tweeting #PMModi's address:
he offers sympathy to thiose who have suffered, as a family member I am with you, he says.
We have to cross this #sankat.
#he pays tribute to all #healthworkers from doctors to sanitation workers.
Once again he praises them for giving up their personal lives and working day/night
Now quoting scriptures. to keet at uit, not to give up, "isi Mantr ko saamner takh kar"
acknowledges the growth in oxygen demand. assures the people that everyone is working hard to ensure that everyone who needs it gets oxygen.
- New oxygen plants
- 1 lakh new cylinders
Read 15 tweets
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20 Apr
If you visit the website of India's Press Information Bureau, @PIB_India, you'd be forgiven for thinking it should be renamed as the Propaganda Wing of the #ModiAdministration. The first thing to pop up is this:
That is a boastful message about India's covid vaccination programme. - the World's largest is the claim. Well it bloody well ought to be the world's largest given that India is almost the MOST populous country (China is a whisker ahead may be, who knows?).
But is it also the world's fastest, as has been claimed elsewhere?
Next, lets look the Press release from @MoHFW_INDIA pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
You'd be forgiven for thinking India is winning the war against #Coronavirus, that the #SecondWave is #fakenews
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