Daily jab doses drop to 25 lakh on Wednesday
After touching the high of around 84 lakh vaccination doses in a day on June 21 — the day the revised Covid-19 vaccination policy was launched — the Covid-19 jab drive plummeted from 36 lakh on Tuesday to 25.14 lakh on Wednesday with many States reporting the shortage of vaccines for 18 plus age category.
The Delhi Government on Wednesday flagged concern about vaccine shortage with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia stating that the stock of vaccines is almost over in the national Capital.
“After tomorrow most of the centres will not have the vaccine. Hopefully, by then the quota for July comes, otherwise, we will have to stop the vaccination drive,” said Sisodia.
Meanwhile, the Centre on Wednesday said that States and Union Territories will receive over 24 lakh Covid-19 vaccine doses within the next three days.
However, according to sources in the Ministry, as per vaccine availability, in the month of July, the daily average jab doses are likely to be around just 38.7 lakh. Only 12 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines will be available in July jointly in private and public sectors. These will include 10 crore Covishield vaccine from Serum Institute of India and the rest 2 crore Covaxin from Bharat Biotech.
Uttar Pradesh is likely to get the maximum allocation at 1.91 crore followed by Maharashtra at 1.15 crore.
In the meantime, India reported 917 Covid-19 fatalities during the last 24 hours, the lowest since April. The daily toll remained below 1,000 for the third consecutive day with over 900 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The new infection count stood at 44,725.