new delhi congress leader p chidambaram on sunday lashed out at the government for making claims contrary to the reality in the countrychidambaram tweeted while no vaccine boards hang on the door of most hospitals union health minister harsh vardhan claims that there is no shortage in the supply of vaccinesbelieve the minister there is no shortage of vaccines oxygen remdisvir hospital beds doctors and nurses there is only a shortage of patientshe also attacked the prime minister and said thank you prime minister for sparing a little time for covid amidst the urgent war to conquer w bengal and annexe it to the bjps empirechidambaram attack comes after the country reported 261500 fresh covid cases in the last 24 hours the highest singleday spike ever pushing the countrys overall covid tally to 14788109 according to the health ministry data released on sundaythis is the fourth consecutive day that the country has registered over two lakh covid cases india recorded 234692 cases were reported on saturday 200739 and 217353 cases on thursday and friday respectivelymeanwhile 1501 people died of covid in the last 24 hours taking the countrys death toll to 177150 so far