Bihar government fully prepared for Covid-19 vaccination, says Nitish Kumar

PATNA: CM Nitish Kumar Tuesday said Bihar government is fully prepared for Covid-19 vaccination in the state.

Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a state government’s event here, Nitish said his government has made all necessary preparations for smooth conduct of vaccination exercise across the state.

“In Bihar, we have made all necessary preparations for Covid-19 vaccination. The vaccine will be given to the healthcare workers and doctors on priority basis. The

frontline health workers

will be given first priority. After that, all frontline workers in police and civil administration will be given priority. All elected peoples’ representatives, common people above 50 years of age would also be given priority in the vaccination. Besides these, the people who have suffered from covid-19, irrespective of their age would be vaccinated,” Nitish said and added, “We will follow the Centre’s guidelines and conduct the vaccination exercise in a very effective way.

Nitish also said that our country has managed to create a Covid-19 vaccine. “As per the requirement, we will start giving the vaccine shots to priority groups as per the Centre’s guidelines. In the later stage, we will vaccinate all people,” he said.

Bihar CM’s statement came days after the Drugs Controller General of India (

DCGI

) last week announced “restricted emergency use’ for two Covid-19 vaccines -- Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN and Serum Institute of India's Covishield.

Referring to the new coronavirus strain, Nitish said, “As you all know that another round of coronavirus strain has started. Even though vaccines have arrived, people should be careful and take all possible precautions till the covid-19 is controlled fully.”

On being asked for his comment on the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav, who stoked a controversy by asserting that he will not take the "BJP vaccine" and later clarified that he did not question experts or researchers involved in the vaccine making process; Bihar CM said, “I am not interested in these matters. Some people make statements just to remain in the news.”

To a question, CM also announced that he would resume his popular mass contact programme—“Janata Ke Darbar Mein Chief Minister”—soon after the Covid-19 pandemic comes under control. The CM said he had already decided to resume the ‘Janata Ke Darbar Mein CM’ programme, but it would be re-started once people get relief from Covid-19.

Earlier, the CM addressed an awareness programme on the Jal-Jivan-Hariyali Abhiyan at the

Adhiveshan Bhawan

here. The CM enumerated in detail the works executed by his government under the Abhiyan.

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