Over 4 crore vaccine doses administered in Maharashtra; Check full details here

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The first dose of vaccine has also been taken by 98.79 lakh beneficiaries (Photo: IE) Dr Pradeep Vyas, Additional Chief Secretary (Health), on Wednesday said that over 4 crore of covid vaccines have been administered in Maharashtra. We are expecting 5.23 lakh Covishield vaccine doses and Covaxin doses soon, the minister added. The state has … Read more

Exclusive: No Covid-19 vaccination in Mumbai till Sunday; drive will resume from Monday, says BMC

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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

Bengaluru 18-44 age group wait for vaccine continues amidst severe vaccine shortage

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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

Covid vaccination dose shortage to go on till July, says Adar Poonawalla: Report

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Covishield is also the vaccine that has been administered to 90 per cent of the total vaccine recipients in India. The second wave of COVID-19 is crippling as many as 4 lakh people in a day and Indian government has rolled out the vaccination drive for everyone above the age of 18 years of age. … Read more

View: States are not facing a shortage of Covid vaccines, but there is a demand-supply mismatch

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Wastage in India is witnessed primarily at the level of distribution. These are all operational management issues, and not intractable. Synopsis Some states have raised the issue of vaccine shortages. Vaccine manufacturers are facing problems in procuring adjuvants from the US to further expand production capacity. The imposition of the Defence Production Act by the … Read more

Vardhan: No question of vaccine shortage, enhancing supply

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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

Vaccine shortage: Many vaccination centres facing imminent closure in Maharashtra in 2-3 days

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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