Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh: On 21st June, i.e. Monday Madhya Pradesh reported the deliverance of 16,73,858 vaccination shots, which was the highest record ever made among the Indian states. But astonishingly after a few days, people complained that they got the vaccination certificates and messages even when they had not received a single dose of vaccine. Among a lot of cases, one of the most shocking ones was a message that a father received about his 13-year-old boy about getting a vaccination dose because till now the vaccination below the age of 18 years hasn’t started yet in India.
Father of 13-years-old boy, Rajat Dangre said "On 21st (June), at 7.27 pm, I received a message saying Vedant is vaccinated. He is just 13 years old. I tried to raise a complaint but it was of no use. When I downloaded the certificate using the link, I was shocked to find out they have used his documents which I submitted a few days back to the Municipal Corporation for his pension (as a person with special needs)."
Rajat Dangre also stated that in the certificate his child’s age was mentioned as 56 years.
Not only Rajat Dangre but many other people were messaged about getting vaccinated even when they didn’t get an actual vaccination dose. Likewise, another case in Satna of Chainendra Pandey who received three messages in 5 minutes saying that three different people- Katikram, Kalindi, and Chandan got vaccinated and these people were not related to Chainendra Pandey in any way! He said, "Three messages within five minutes. Just the name is different. I have not got any vaccine to date."
Adding on, a 46-year-old worried woman from Bhopal stated, "I got a message on 21st night at 10:57 that 'you have got the vaccine' while I am not vaccinated yet, I am worried about how I will get the vaccine now."
"New figures are coming out every day. The vaccine was given to a 13-year-old child and a dead person. Forty-seven villages in Betul did not get the vaccine. This vaccine record is nothing but a PR gimmick", Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja said. The opposition also denounced the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led government and stated that the record-breaking number of vaccination shorts in a single day was claimed just by providing inappropriate figures.
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