COVID-19: Foreign-Bound Students Complain Of Vaccine Shortage

Several students who are heading to foreign countries for education had to return without getting a coronavirus vaccine jab for the second day in a row at civic-run Rajawadi Hospital.

Several students who are heading to foreign countries for education had to return without getting a coronavirus vaccine jab for the second day in a row at civic-run Rajawadi Hospital here. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), however, said later that 1,875 jabs were delivered at three centres in two days, and another 900 would be made available on Wednesday. It also said it had requested the Union government to shorten the gap between two doses as many students are to leave for foreign countries in July-August. The civic body last week announced walk-in vaccination -- without registration -- for students from the city who are going abroad at Kasturba Hospital, Rajawadi Hospital and Cooper Hospital from Monday to Wednesday. It had allocated 500 vaccine doses for this category on Tuesday -- 200 each at Kasturba and Cooper hospitals and 100 at Rajawadi Hospital, sources said. But a large number of students turned up at the suburban Rajawadi Hospital in the morning.