Rajasthan will get eight lakh doses on Monday night.
Jaipur:
The COVID-19 vaccination session was not conducted on Monday in at least 25 of the 33 districts of Rajasthan due to shortage of vaccine, an official said.
Health secretary Siddharth Mahajan said, “There were only 10,000 doses in the state on Monday. Hence, vaccination sessions could not be conducted in around 25 districts of the state.”
Rajasthan will get eight lakh doses on Monday night and it will be consumed in the next two days.
Mr Mahajan said the state had demanded 1.5 crore anti-Covid vaccine doses for July, but the Center allocated 65 lakh doses.
Officials said a large number of people need to be vaccinated for the second dose in July, which requires adequate supplies.
Mr. Mahajan said that Rajasthan has also written to the Center to supply the dose of vaccine allocated to private hospitals to the state government.
According to the Health Department, from June 21 to July 8, the state had received 31.63 lakh vaccine doses from the Centre.
During this period, 48 lakh people were vaccinated against the corona virus and the doses administered were those that were procured by the state at its own expense.
On 9 July, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in a letter to the Union Health Minister, urged the Center not only to increase the vaccine allocation, but also to allot the state government’s entire quota of Rajasthan, which includes private hospitals. Vaccines are also included for.
Presently, daily vaccination is limited to the extent of supplies received from the central government, he had said.
Shri Gehlot said that the daily average of vaccine doses received since the start of the vaccination campaign for 18 years and above has been only about two to three lakhs.
In Rajasthan, more than 2.63 crore people have received the first dose and out of these, more than 46 lakh people have received the second dose.
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