Odisha Health Minister Naba Kishore Das on Monday again wrote to Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan to supply adequate Covid vaccine to the State urgently.
Covid vaccination in the State has been affected due to less and irregular supply of vaccine by the Centre. Till April 11, the State has received 46,08,650 doses of vaccine, out of which 42,71,870 doses are of Covishield and 3,35,780 are Covaxin, Das pointed out.
At present, there is nil stock of vaccine in SVS, RVS and DVS; and 1,59,439 doses of Covishield and 71,010 doses of Covaxin are in pipeline across State. The balance stock of Covishield would last for one day only. Das in his letter further stated that due to short and irregular supply of vaccine, State has been forced to close over 700 vaccination centres. Thus, State is unable to contribute to the Tika Utsav properly. Hence, the Centre should supply vaccines for 10 days at least (25 lakh doses) as an emergency measure.