1 day, 2nd dose: old rush missing in a new schedule

Kolkata: Ninanjan Dutta, a Septuagenarian and resident of the Regent, could not believe in his eyes when he reached the Corporation Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) vaccination in the neighborhood on Monday morning to receive the second dose of the covishield.
The center wore at 10am with only five people in the queue to register their names for the second dose.
“Initially, I thought something was wrong with the vaccination process and prepared to go home when the KMC staff asked me to stand in the queue and register for Jab.
I was given a shot in 30 minutes,” said Dutta, who had to return twice in the last 10 days Without getting Jab because of the lack of acute vaccines.
Dutta is among 30 people who have received the second dose of the center.
The scene was similar in the majority of KMC and Mega Center vaccination clinics.
In the end, most of them are left with a covishield bottle surplus because a little appears to take the second dose of covishiled or covaxin.
Monday marks the beginning of alternative vaccination schedules for the first and second dose recipients.
Although only the second dose recipient will be vaccinated at the KMC clinic and Mega Centers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the first dose recipient will be entertained on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
According to a KMC health department official, the Civic Agency has allocated 150 covishield doses to each clinic and 250 second doses to each mega center on Monday morning.
However, less than 30% of the shares were used in the mega clinic and center, conceding citizenship officials related to vaccination drives.
“Every covishield vaccination clinic has sent back around 70% of the stock we provide.
Similarly, the Mega Covishield center cannot consume more than 30% of stock.
Now we are left with stock buffers, which will be used in the coming days to clear your deposits Fresh, “said KMC health department official.
According to a medical officer posted at the KMC vaccination clinic in Tollygunge, the initial response to changes in the surprising civic body vaccination schedule.
“Estimates ourselves, we need to clean a good dose.
Now there is no scarcity of vaccines.
We anticipate the rush of the second dose recipient from the beginning of next week.
If the supply remains normal, we might be able to clean the main part of the backlog at the beginning of next month , “said the Civic medical officer.