Govt. vaccination centres in Delhi shut due to shortage
The Hindu
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had last week urged citizens to take precautionary dose citing low percentage of people who have taken the dose in the capital city
Shortage of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines in New Delhi has forced shut almost all government-run vaccination centres, leaving many people unable to get free shots, multiple sources have told The Hindu.
The Delhi government-run facilities are facing the acute shortage as the government is yet to get a fresh stock of vaccines from the Centre, sources said. This is despite a scare of COVID-19 cases going up again and directions from the Centre and Delhi governments to ramp up administration of precautionary doses.
“Currently, none of the government-run vaccination centres in our district are working. We have run out of stocks of both the vaccines for the past five to six days. At the beginning of this month, we were running about seven to 10 vaccination centres on an average every day,” an official source said.
In at least three districts, all vaccination centres were shut on Tuesday, according to officials. Another source said the Delhi government has written to the Centre for stocks of both the vaccines, but they were yet to get a confirmation on when a fresh stock will be delivered.
“Today morning there were only about 40 doses, that is four vials of vaccines, in all the Delhi government vaccination centres in the city combined,” the source added.
On the other hand, the vaccines were available in multiple private hospitals in the city.
“We used to have around 10 centres a month back, but now all of them are shut as we do not have any stock of vaccines. All the centres will be shut today and we have no stock for tomorrow as well. The situation is the same in most of the districts,” another official said.
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