Centre Must Provide Free COVID-19 Vaccines To States: Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee also cast doubts on the union government's assertion that it would administer COVID-19 vaccines to the entire population above the age of 18 by the end of 2021, terming the statement a "hoax".

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday demanded the Centre provide free COVID- 19 vaccines to states and claimed that her counterparts in Odisha, Kerala and Delhi are in agreement over her stand. Ms Banerjee also cast doubts on the union government's assertion that it would administer COVID-19 vaccines to the entire population above the age of 18 by the end of 2021, terming the statement a "hoax". "The centre is not sending vaccines to states." Whatever little stock that is supplied, gets depleted within days... It must give free vaccines to state governments.