Delhi: Covid-19 vaccine stock in city will last for 6 days, suggests bulletin
Delhi’s stock of anti-coronavirus vaccine will last for six days, the city government of the national capital said on Saturday. Officials said 1,20,541 doses of vaccine were given on the previous day.
As of Saturday morning, Delhi had 6,87,150 coronavirus vaccines in its balance stock, of which 3,96,110 doses were of Kovashield and 2,91,040 of Covaxin, according to the Covid Vaccination Bulletin issued by the government.
A total of 1,20,541 doses were administered on Thursday, including 74,755 in the first dose. The cumulative number of doses administered in the city has so far reached 11.3 crore doses – 81,60,782 first doses and 31,97,481 second doses.
The current immunization capacity of Delhi is 1,77,496 doses per day, the bulletin said. City health department officials had recently told the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) that all eligible beneficiaries above the age of 18 years should be fully immunized against the novel coronavirus infection at the “current rate of supply of vaccines”. It will take another year.
with agency input
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