With the surge of pandemic and its casualty West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she has directed all the top officials to make elaborate arrangements and step up their efforts to deal with the covid-19 situation, even as the rise of death count as well as new cases on the higher graph for past three weeks.
A state government latest health bulletin said some 28 deaths were reported and new cases of Covid-19 rose to 8419 in the past 24 hours up to 0900 hrs on Sunday.
“I have also directed all the top officials to make elaborate arrangements and step up their efforts at every level to deal with #COVID19 situation in WB.” Ms Banerjee said on her Twitter account that the Chief Secretary along with key officials will be doing a press conference at 1400 hrs to discuss the details of the plan.”
“With the massive surge in COVID-19 cases across India, GoWB is taking all necessary steps to protect its people. I’ve reached out to the PM to help us with additional medicines and vaccines required,” the chief minister said.
Ms Banerjee on Sunday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested him to arrange a supply of 5.4 crores more vaccine doses.
Ms Banerjee sought PM’s intervention in the state’s battle against the virus.
Highlighting the lack of vaccine stock, she demanded an additional 5.4 crore vaccine doses to inoculate 2.7 crore citizens.
“The number of cases in the state has also begun to increase sharply, particularly in view of the coming of a large number of outsiders to the state for election campaigns and other purposes at the behest of some political parties,” she wrote.
She said that vaccination was of top importance, particularly in Kolkata where the density of the population is extremely high.
“There’s shortage of Remdesivir and oxygen in the country….Today there’s no medicine in our country but medicines were sent to 80 countries. I don’t have any problem if you send medicines, first provide it to your nation,” she added.
