{"id":328539,"date":"2020-11-11T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328539"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:10:41","slug":"govt-needs-to-define-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-strategy-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/govt-needs-to-define-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-strategy-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt needs to define COVID-19 vaccine distribution strategy: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327793 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad.jpg 760w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-696x527.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-554x420.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the government will have to define a COVID-19 vaccine distribution strategy to ensure that every Indian gets it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after Pfizer\u00a0and\u00a0BioNTech\u00a0announced that their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEven though Pfizer has created a promising vaccine, the logistics for making it available to every Indian need to be worked out. GOI has to define a vaccine distribution strategy and how it will reach every Indian,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The former Congress President also attached a media report saying that no cold chain logistic company in India has the capability or capacity to transport the Pfizer vaccine to India which required a temperature of minus 70 degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India on Wednesday recorded 44,281 fresh Covid-19 cases and 512 deaths, pushing the tally in the country to 86,36,011, according to the health ministry\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are now 4,94,657 active COVID-19 cases and 80,13,783 recoveries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the government will have to define a COVID-19 vaccine distribution strategy to ensure that every Indian gets it.\u00a0 This came after Pfizer\u00a0and\u00a0BioNTech\u00a0announced that their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19. \u201cEven though Pfizer has created a promising vaccine, the logistics for making it available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801,1],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328542,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328539\/revisions\/328542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}