Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai

Mumbai, Mar 16: Industrialist Anand Mahindra has called for 'emergency permission’ to vaccinate every willing person in the state amid the rise in coronavirus infections. Maharashtra is reporting daily detections witnessed in September-October 2020.

The Mahindra group chairman tweeted on Monday about how half the new daily cases are in Maharashtra, “The nerve centre of the country's economic activity” and more lockdowns would be “debilitating’’. Mahindra added that if “we don’t speed up the vaccination rate we will suffer second, third and fourth waves”. His tweets further highlighted the need for scaling up the vaccination programme.

The deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar also assured of seeking permission from the Centre to open up vaccination in Pune for people aged over 18. Dr Subhash Salunkhe, a technical advisor to the state government, has called for a decentralised vaccination programme and criticized the need to distribute vaccines uniformly across states when the Covid march has been uneven.