New Delhi: A number of government-run vaccination centres in Delhi might be closed on Tuesday as a result of the town has exhausted its Covishield COVID-19 vaccine inventory, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia stated on Monday.
Solely 36,310 vaccine doses may very well be administered in Delhi until 10 pm on Monday versus round 1.5 lakh of day by day vaccine doses being administered on a mean earlier.
“Vaccines have run out in Delhi once more. The central authorities provides vaccines for a day or two, then we’ve to maintain the vaccine centres closed for a number of days. Why is our nation’s vaccine programme faltering even after so many days?” Mr Sisodia wrote on Twitter, whereas sharing a report on the scarcity of vaccines.
दिल्ली में वैक्सीन फिर ख़त्म हो गई है… केंद्र सरकार एक दो दिन की वैक्सीन देती है, फिर हमें कई दिन वैक्सीन केंद्र बंद रखने पड़ते हैं.
केंद्र सरकार की क्या मजबूरी है…इतने दिन बाद भी हमारे देश का वैक्सीन प्रोग्राम लड़खड़ा कर क्यूँ चल रहा है? pic.twitter.com/rXJEBQJRtt
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) July 12, 2021
Delhi has repeatedly raised the problem of scarcity of vaccine doses with a number of totally different centres remaining shut for days on finish for the reason that new part of universalisation of COVID-19 vaccination commenced on June 21 beneath which the centre is offering vaccines free-of-cost to all states.
There has additionally been a decline in common day by day inoculation in opposition to coronavirus since June 21 throughout the nation, authorities knowledge confirmed at present.
Some states comparable to Maharashtra have additionally raised the problem of vaccine scarcity.
In keeping with the information accessible on the CoWIN platform, a mean of 61.14 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered day by day within the week from June 21-27 in India, which dropped to 41.92 lakh doses day by day within the subsequent week of June 28-July 4. Within the week from July 5 to July 11, the day by day common vaccine doses quantity additional dipped to 34.32 lakh doses.
Nonetheless, the Well being Ministry stated over 1.54 crore stability and unutilised COVID-19 vaccine doses are nonetheless accessible with the states, Union Territories and personal hospitals.
The cumulative variety of vaccine doses administered in India until now has reached 37.73 crore beneath the nationwide vaccination drive.
The centre plans to inoculate the whole grownup inhabitants in India by the top of December this yr.
The nationwide capital at present recorded 45 COVID-19 circumstances, the bottom single-day rise in over a yr, and three deaths whereas the positivity fee stood at 0.08 per cent, a well being division bulletin stated.
India’s high medical doctors’ physique, the Indian Medical Affiliation, at present appealed to the centre and state governments to not let the guard down on the Covid entrance warning {that a} third wave was simply across the nook. It stated going by the expertise of the previous year-and-a-half, the influence of the third wave will be mitigated by guaranteeing common vaccination and following Covid-appropriate behaviour.
