Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S.

Jagan Mohan directed authorities to explore the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccine by calling for international tenders.He held a review conference on Covid-19 management and vaccination with ministers and senior authorities at his Camp Workplace here on Monday.

Speaking on the occasion, he said that it was the Centre, which was deciding the variety of vaccine dosages to be offered by their producers and also purchases made by states.Reddy suggested that if Andhra Pradesh could get one crore doses of the vaccine monthly, it might finish vaccination of all individuals in 6 months.

The truth was that the state was getting just 19 lakh doses on a typical per month.

He underscored the requirement for purchasing the dosages after requiring international tenders.The Chief Minister criticised political leaders who were trying to spread worry amongst the people with false information campaigns.

He asked authorities to explain the realities to people.

He urged authorities to make sure that there is no rush at Covid vaccination centres by notifying them clearly through ANMs and Asha workers about who would get the dose and when.

He advised them to provide priority to the second dosage for people aged above 45 years.

He said there should be no compromise on supply of medication kits to Covid clients staying at home seclusion within 3 hours of getting info at the call centre.

He sought an action plan for setting up PSA oxygen plants and stated that out of 590 metric tonnes of medical oxygen that has been allotted, they could draw 571 MT only on May 8.

He stated that they had asked the Centre to allocate 10 ISO cryogenic tankers and added that officials were making efforts to get more allocation of medical oxygen from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

The officials informed that if they could get 60 MT of medical oxygen from Tamil Nadu and 130 MT from Karnataka, it would assist meet the state's fundamental requirements.

Reddy required suppressing black-marketing of remdesivir injections.

The DGP was advised to send a district-wise report every day on application of curfew in the state.The Chief Minister stated that there was a requirement for the appropriate performance of 104 call centre so that it would assist patients to get beds.

He likewise demanded having an Arogya Mitra at every healthcare facility.