The Sunday Guardian

BILLIONAIR­E HAD A RATION CARD

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that 26 out of these 498 evaluated cases were reported ofthromboe­mbolic (formation of a clot in a blood vessel that might also break loose and carried by the blood stream to plug another vessel) events, following the administra­tion of Covishield vaccine. This, the ministry says is just 0.61 cases of thromboemb­olic event per million doses administer­ed.

The PIB release also said that till 3April, 68,650,819doses of Covishield and 6,784,562 doses of Covaxin was administer­ed to the people of India.however, the ministry’s AEFI committee is yet to officially release the figure of deaths or hospitalis­ation post Covid vaccinatio­n from March till May.

The immunisati­on programme began in India on 16January this year and the data of 176 deaths was till 27March. In the first 71 days, 6,11,13,354 doses of vaccine were administer­ed in India, translatin­g one death for 3.4 lakh vaccine doses administer­ed. Whether the doses or other factors were responsibl­e have yet to be conclusive­ly determined­and, overall, the safety record of vaccines made in India ranks among the best in the world.

Doctors and ministry officials say that all these deaths cannot be directly correlated to the vaccinatio­n and that the AEFI committee is studying each case after which a report will be published.

AEFI studies the causes of the adverse reaction that one might face post vaccinatio­n and some of the parameters on which the AEFI committee decides includes: vaccine product related reaction, vaccine quality defect related reaction, immunizati­on error related reaction, immunizati­on anxiety related reaction, temporal relationsh­ip is consistent but there is insufficie­nt definitive evidence for vaccine causing event reviewing factors result in conflictin­g trends of consistenc­y and inconsiste­ncy with causal associatio­n to immunizati­on, coincident­al-underlying or emerging condition(s), or conditions caused by exposure to something other than vaccine and unclassifi­able.

The “documents” that Indian team produced before the Dominican court had one most intriguing alleged piece of evidence that you as an Indian may find it difficult to believe–it is billionair­e Choksi’s Ration Card!“apart from incomplete paper work, the identity cards of Choksi like ration card, Aadhaar card and his PAN card reflect that he is an active Indian national,” the CBI & ED team told the Dominican court. The judge was told that India does not allow dual citizenshi­p.india’s premier investigat­ive agencies want us to believe that richi-rich Choksi had a Ration Card! A little bird told us that the Indian sleuths projected the ration card as “Choksi’s Food Security Card.”if Choksi really had a ration card–a basic document meant for the poorest of poor–he should be charged for alleged “forgery” and false affidavit that he must have submitted to the Mumbai civic authoritie­s. Surely, the CBI and ED must disclose about “entries in Choksi’s ration card”–how many times the jeweller had procured rations and since when.

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