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“I am given to understand that up to August 2, approximately 3,00,65,845 persons have been vaccinated (in the state),” Chowdhury said in the letter. The state Congress president mentioned that seventy per cent of West Bengal”s 10 crore population is “still waiting for protection from the virus”. Chowdhury requested the prime minister to “do the needful to increase the quota of Covid vaccine” for the state.
The Mamata Banerjee government has repeatedly accused the central government of providing an inadequate number of Covid vaccines to West Bengal than some BJP-ruled states with comparatively less population.