Joe Biden Pledges free Covid vaccine In US if elected As Promised in India by Narendra Modi Governmet
“Once we have a safe and effective vaccine, it has to be free to everyone —whether or not you’re insured,” Xinhua news agency quoted Biden as saying during a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday. The coronavirus pandemic was a central topic at the debate in United States as in India.
All citizens in the country to get free Covid-19 vaccine: Union minister Sarangi –
The governments of Tamil Nadu,Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Puduchchery have already announced free of cost Covid vaccines for the people of their states, while Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has demanded free vaccine for all citizens across the country. Free Covid vaccine is the demand of other opposition parties also PM Modi, in a televised address to the nation on October 20, had said Indian scientists are in the process of developing several vaccines that are at different stages of clinical trials and the results seem encouraging.
Union minister Pratap Sarangi on Sunday, Oct 25, 2020 said Odisha Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister that all people of the country will be given free Covid vaccine, and not only in poll-bound Bihar as announced by the BJP.
Listen here Biden’s speech:
“Covid-19 dwarfs anything that we’ve faced in recent history, and it isn’t showing any signs of slowing
down,” said Biden, adding that the virus, which has now killed more than 223,000 people nationwide, “is
surging in almost every state”.
“We’re more than eight months into this crisis and the president still doesn’t have a plan,” said the
77-year-old.
He also laid out his pandemic response plan if elected, which includes consultation with governors of all
the 50 states during the presidential transition period; a national mask mandate in all federal buildings and
on all interstate transportation; and an increase in daily testing reaching seven times today’s level.
Trump, during the debate the previous night, boasted about a vaccine that is coming “within weeks,” only
to backtrack when pressed by the moderator, saying his statement was not a “guarantee”.
Biden’s remarks on Friday came as the US is trying to battle a resurgence of fresh coronavirus cases.
Presently the worst-hit country in the world by the pandemic, the US has so far reported 8,484,991
Covid-19 cases and 223,914 deaths.
