Burdwan\/Bankura: An insulated van carrying 31,500 doses of Covishield for health workers in Bankura was caught in a protest on NH-2 on Wednesday morning and had to take a 5km detour through a village road. Although the van was delayed by several minutes, health officials confirmed that vaccine rollout wouldn\u2019t be affected.
\nSupporters of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, led by its state president and minister Siddiqulla Chowdhury, launched a three-hour agitation on the national highway from 9.30am to express their solidarity with farmers protesting at the Singhu border against the Centre\u2019s farm laws. The vaccine van remained stranded amid the stir for sometime despite the minister trying to reason with his supporters to make way for it.
\nPolice and health officials, however, stressed that vaccine rollout from 10 sites in Bankura would not be compromised. Burdwan (East) SP Bhaskar Mukherjee said, \u201cTo avoid (further) delay, the vehicle was escorted through an alternative route.\u201d Chief medical officer of health (CMOH), Bankura, Shyamal Soren said they had received the Covishield shots. \u201cThese will be dispatched as per schedule to the vaccination sites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Burdwan\/Bankura: An insulated van carrying 31,500 doses of Covishield for health workers in Bankura was caught in a protest on NH-2 on Wednesday morning and had to take a 5km detour through a village road. Although the van was delayed by several minutes, health officials confirmed that vaccine rollout wouldn\u2019t be affected. Supporters of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, led by its state president and minister Siddiqulla Chowdhury, launched a three-hour agitation on the national highway from 9.30am to express their solidarity with farmers protesting at the Singhu border against the Centre\u2019s farm laws. The vaccine van remained stranded amid the stir for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}