Have requested Centre to provide adequate number of Covid-19 vaccines to Bengal: Mamata

Saturday, 16 January 2021
Expressing her dissatisfaction over the "inadequate number of Covid-19 vaccines" supplied to West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said her government "strongly feels" that all people of the state should be inoculated free of cost. The chief minister also said that her government was ready to bear the financial burden for providing the doses free of charge in the state, if need be.

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