new delhi the opposition on thursday hit out at the government over covid19 management accusing it of mishandling the second wave and struck a word of caution on the spread of omicron strain of the virus besides seeking clarity on booster doses of vaccinesin a discussion in lok sabha on the covid pandemic members called for ban on international flights in view of the outbreak of the omicron strain and demanded that the government accept responsibility for deaths of lakhs of people during the outbreaklaunching a strong defence of the government bjp members credited prime minister narendra modi and his leadership throughout the pandemic for strengthening health infrastructure and making the country selfreliant in healthcare supplies such as vaccines facemasks ppe kitsbe it availability of medicines stepping up oxygen production ensuring vaccines for everyone or distributing free food grains for the poor the prime minister cared for everyone bjp member rita bahuguna joshi saidthe discussion on the issue continued late thursday night and health minister mansukh mandaviya is expected to reply to the debate on fridayinitiating the debate shiv sena leader vinayak raut lamented that parliament was discussing the issue 21 months after the outbreak of the disease and at a time when cases were on the declineon covid19 vaccination raut accused the centre of allocating vaccine doses to bjpruled states in excess and at the cost of nonbjp ruled statesthe prime ministers responsibility is for the entire 130 crore population it should not be so that you look at maharashtra with a sly glance help gujarat in good measure and make maximum allocations to uttar pradesh because it is going to polls allocations should be made on the basis of the population the sena leader saidtrinamool member kakoli ghosh dastidar questioned the government on administration of the second dose of covid19 vaccines in the countrywhy can we not complete the second dose which we were supposed to complete by december or january why have we not done it yet she askedmembers also flagged views on booster doses of vaccines for the elderly and those with comorbidities and demanded that the government spell out its policy on the issueysr congress member kumari godetti madhavi suggested utilising the unused stock of five to 10 million vaccine doses with the private sector for administering the booster doses to healthcare and frontline workersbjps jagdambika pal dismissed opposition criticism that bjpruled states were favoured in battling covid and said there was no discrimination in fighting the pandemichitting out at the samajwadi party and the bahujan samajwadi party pal said when the leaders of these parties were locked in their homes up chief minister yogi adityanath was going to every district saving lives and had himself contracted covidgaurav gogoi of the congress charged the government with ignoring various warnings leading to shortage of bed oxygen and ventilators during the second wavethe second wave has resulted in the hardship for poor as many of them have lost jobs he saidinstead of supporting them he said the