Haven't abandoned states on Covid-19 vaccine: Niti Aayog's V K Paul

Companies, including Moderna and Pfizer, have said they will deal only with the Centre and not state governments

The government on Thursday said that the Centre was doing all the heavy lifting to bring foreign vaccines to India and that it had not abdicated its responsibility towards the states.

In a statement, which it said was meant to dispel “myths” about the government’s vaccine efforts, Niti Aayog member-health V K Paul said the fact that global tenders from states had not given any results only reaffirms what the government had been telling the states from day one: “That vaccines are in short supply in the world and it is not easy to procure them at short notice.”

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