New Delhi, May 24:Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said said the Delhi government has spoken to Pfizer, Moderna for COVID-19 vaccines, and both the companies have refused to sell vaccines directly and will deal with the Government of India alone.

He appealed to the Centre to import vaccines and distribute them to the states.

‘We have talked to people from Pfizer, they say that they will communicate with the Centre directly, we talked to Moderna, they said that they will not talk to us but to the Centre directly,’ Mr Kejriwal told reporters here.

‘It is my earnest request to the Central government that our country has lost a lot of time already, it has been a long time that we should not waste anymore. Now there are a lot of vaccines in the International market – there is Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, Pfizer, and many more.

The central government should talk to them and import and distribute among the states,” he said.

Mr Kejriwal said, ‘Now the COVID-19 cases are reducing significantly. For the country, this is the second wave but for Delhi, this is the fourth wave, and this time, in the last week of April around 28,000 cases were recorded but now they have come down to 1500.’

‘The infection rate had also reached 36 per cent in the last week of April, coming down to around 2.5 per cent. It seems that this wave is subsiding but there has been no laxity in the efforts by the Delhi Government. We have already started preparing for the next, what is being called the Third wave,” he said.(UNI)