Vaccines Will Last Only 3 Days: Kerala Chief Minister Writes To Centre

COVID-19 vaccine: The letter by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan comes amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country

Kerala's COVID-19 vaccine stock will last only three more days and the state needs at least 50 lakh doses, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said in a letter to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. Wrote to the Honourable Minister for Health and Family Welfare @drharshvardhan ji requesting immediate allocation of 50L doses of #COVID19 vaccines to Kerala so that our vaccination programme proceeds uninterrupted, and we continue to successfully control the pandemic. The letter by the Kerala Chief Minister comes amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country. Reports of hospitals in other states asking for more vaccine doses are becoming common as the lines of waiting people grow longer. "Kerala is witnessing a rise in the number of Covid cases at present," Mr Vijayan wrote in the letter. "The stock (of vaccine) which is left with us is sufficient for conducting vaccination for the next three days only. This shortage of vaccine has been brought to the notice of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare... We are yet to get any additional supply of Covid vaccine," the Chief Minister wrote. He said Kerala has so far got over 56 lakh doses of Covid vaccine - some 54 lakh Covishield and over 2 lakh Covaxin, adding the state has used a little over 48 lakh doses till Sunday.