The vaccination drive had picked up a sustained momentum for a few days at the end of June but the momentum petered out since the beginning of this month. As a result of severe vaccine shortage, vaccination centres across the city of Mumbai will remain shut through the weekend and the vaccination drive will only … Read more
Gupta said that ideally 1 lakh vaccination should be administered at the government facilities alone. Even as the centre claims to be supplying regular supplies of vaccines to the state governments, the crunch of Covid-19 vaccine is severe in some of the metropolitan cities in the country. Take for instance, the city of Bangalore where … Read more
At the moment, India is using two vaccines – Serum Institute of India-manufactured Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. Coronavirus vaccination in Punjab: Punjab has stated that it was facing a shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, and in order to get doses, it would be joining the Covax facility – a WHO-led platform that aims to provide … Read more
Starting February 2021, a steep increase was seen in cases in all the 11 states. After administering 9.43 crore of Covid vaccine doses till Thursday, India has 2.4 crore doses left in stock. A total of 36.91 lakh doses were given in the last 24 hours. If this rate of vaccination is maintained, the country … Read more
The total number of doses which have been consumed domestically since March 21 has risen to 8.7 crore. Even as the Maharashtra remains the worst affected state by the second wave of Coronavirus, the state government has said that it is facing shortage of Coronavirus vaccines and might need to halt the vaccination process if … Read more