Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the total number of anti-coronavirus vaccine doses administered in the city so far crossed the one-crore mark. Around 50 per cent of the eligible population have received at least one jab, the Chief Minister said.
During an online briefing, the Chief Minister said that the national cCpital has a population of about two crore and among them, about 1.5 crore are eligible for Covid-19 vaccination.
“Out of the 1.5 crore eligible population, 74 lakh have received vaccine doses. So, about 50 per cent have received at least one dose. Of the 74 lakh, 26 lakh have been administered both the jabs,” said the CM adding that the number of Covid vaccine doses administered in Delhi since the start of the inoculation drive, crossed the one-crore mark today.
Congratulating the medical staff for administering over one crore doses in the national capital, Kejriwal said there was an acute shortage of vaccines for which inoculation could not be scaled up.
“We have the capacity to vaccinate three lakh people daily. But due to shortage, only 50,000-80,000 people are getting the Covid jabs every day,” he said. “The Delhi Government is in regular contact with the Centre and hoped the city, along with the rest of the country, will soon have adequate vaccine doses.There are two challenges before the government: to vaccinate those who have not yet taken even the first dose and to administer the second dose to those who have got the first jab,” said the Chief Minister.