Non Covid Hospital should be provided with Remdesivir... PG 04 << VIEWS & VISION OF CITY Volume: 12, Issue: 212 MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021, MUMBAI 12 Pages, ₹2 /- RNI No. MAHENG/2009/29332 www.afternoonvoice.com BJP HOARDING REMDESIVIR The Dabangg While People In Maharashtra Are Dying Due To Shortage actor posted Newsmakers Bureau Remdesivir from Bruck the police station late at night and were told that Central the picture... afternoon_voice Pharma. says BJP ordered those vials from Government has asked them not PG 12 << Saket Gokhale, a Daman & Gujarat.” to supply the medicine to he former chief minister t r a n s p a r e n c y He further stated, “It is Maharashtra. These companies and leader of opposition activist tweeted in shameful that the Modi govt is were warned, if they did, their TDevendra Fadnavis s e r i e s w h i l e t h r o t t l i n g s u p p l i e s o f license will be cancelled,” claimed that BJP leader Prasad exposing the BJP Remdesivir to Maharashtra Malik further added. Lad went to Daman on behalf of stated that “Last night Govt while sneakily allowing Formal Principal the BJP and met the director of (Saturday), Vile Parle police Fadnavis & BJP to distribute it S e c r e t a r y t o Bruck Pharma. He used their station in Mumbai seized 4.75 through their party office. This Government of Central government to give the crores worth of Remdesivir vials is politics of the filthiest kind M a h a r a s h t r a exporter permission to sell that were being secretly moved by a where BJP is playing with the Mahesh Zagade locally and then the BJP Gujarat company. Suddenly lives of innocent people.” questions Pharma purchased the stock of Devendra Fadnavis shows up at W h e r e a s N C P companies, he said, l e a d e r N a w a b “The Indian pharmaceutical Malik said that, “If industry is worth about Rs 3 the vaccination lakh crore and benefits the The AAP Mumbai team demands action be certificates carry members of OPPI, IDMA and taken against BJP for indulging in hoarding PM Narendra Modi’s AIOCD. Where are those and breaking the law by indulging in illegal Amit Shah charity. Fadnavis later claimed that the BJP photo, then the death certificates institutions in this Corona bought that stock to distribute to people. How of the COVID victims should also crisis?” holds massive did a private individual like Fadnavis procure carry his image.” Political parties are registered Remdesivir stock from Gujarat when the sale “He said it is sad & shocking with the Election Commission, is allowed only to the government?” that when the Government of and not Charity Commissioner. roadshow... << Maharashtra asked the 16 export PG 05 - Preeti Sharma Menon, AAP leader companies for Remdesivir, we CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Remdesivir - Covid vaccine has become a new political tool ow the citizens of India are aware of the double the adequate infrastructure to battle COVID-19. standard ideology of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). BJP The central government has asked states to allow COVID Nhas always been talking about United India but now they vaccines to be administered at offices with about 100 workers who are dividing India for their political benefit and declaring that all the are 45 years of age or older and are willing to take the shot. The citizens of Bihar will get the COVID-19 vaccine free of cost and vaccination was supposed to begin on 11 April at both government Bihar will be given preference as the first state to get vaccines, and private offices, the central government but due to PM Modi’s because elections were a priority there. election campaign in West Bengal, other states are just ignored with Later on, when the second wave of COVID sprung, they declared the supply of vaccines. a free distribution of Remdesivir to attract the support of people of There are 29 states in India and our constitution provides equality those states where elections are going on. As they lost power in and it is the fundamental right of every citizen of India. Then how Dr.Vaidehi Maharashtra on a humiliating note, they are depriving the state of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 afternoonvoice.com/editorial [email protected] afternoon_voice afternoonvoicenews MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021 Editoritis AFTERNOON VOICE, MUMBAI 02 Remdesivir- Covid vaccine has become a new political tool << PAGE 1 without cost or there will be some cost, it will be this time because there will always be a risk of new decided by the state government. BJP is simply disease outbreaks. the government is declaring who will be given the saying that if voted to power, whenever the vaccine Maharashtra, with a population of over 12 crores, first preference for the vaccine. will come they will distribute it without cost. accounts for 60 per cent of the total number of active Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and other BJP ruled Our economy and international trade depend on a cases in the country. The number is more because states are stoking the vaccines in their party offices, healthy population worldwide. While the world is testing has been increased substantially; the state whereas other non-BJP ruled states are suffering due suffering from this plague our economies have has mobilized its capacity to administer six lakh to lack of supply. become vulnerable to all sorts of disruptions, doses daily, so they need vaccines in a similar On the other hand, in the middle of the vaccine shortages, failed policies and promises by ignorant proportion. shortage row, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh leaders, religious leaders wasting our time by Mumbai police questioned a pharma company Tope has urged the Centre to formulate criteria for praying for miracles and pointless disregard for director over alleged excess stock of the Remdesivir allotment of COVID-19 vaccines by taking into science and facts, and conspiracy theories have drug and allowed him to leave after he produced consideration factors like population and number of drowned good sense with lies, innuendos. necessary documents. The opposition party BJP in active coronavirus cases of a particular state. He So we must get back on track by making our Maharashtra objected to the pharma executive’s alleged that many states, which are smaller than citizens immune to this disease. The only way to do grilling by Mumbai police, saying the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra in terms of population and the number that is by mandating vaccination of the entire government in the state was playing politics amid of patients, have received more doses. population (with obvious medical exemption when the pandemic. Even though it’s still possible to control the spread necessary). We can never achieve the so-called herd The BJP leader claimed that a Maharashtra of COVID-19 through very rigorous testing, contact immunity for several reasons that are tangent issues. minister’s officer on special duty called the pharma tracing, and quarantining of infected patients, these The government and the Centre have been executive and asked him how he could provide are still not very effective if we are to significantly blaming each other over the crisis of vaccination in Remdesivir on the appeal of opposition parties. The reduce the threat of the disease yet. the state. Maharashtra was given a total of 1 crore pharma executive was picked up from his house by We also need to not only break the chain of vaccines by the Central government and after 10 policemen. transmission but also make sure that people get administering millions of doses, the state started The Leader of Opposition said, “The state long-term protection once they are infected. This is suffering a shortage following which it demanded government was harassing the Daman-based also one of the greatest challenges that scientists more vaccines. pharma as BJP leaders approached him for the have to grapple with right now. There is still no As of April 9, around 2,72,421 people took jabs supply of the antiviral medication to the state. No harmony on how long the body’s protective out of which 2,38,386 people took their first dose one knows the reality but one thing is sure that the immunity lasts. who were above the age of 45 while in the same Remdesivir has become a purely political tool and The BJP or union government can’t decide category 15,819 beneficiaries took their second no one is bothered about the common public and whether the COVID-19 vaccine will be given dose. 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