Ranchi: Drive Vaccination took steps on Wednesday after a two-day disruption throughout the state because more than two doses of Lakh Covishield arrived on Tuesday night.
However, other submissions from more than 31,000 covaxin doses scheduled to be sent to the state on Wednesday were delayed due to bakrid holidays and are now expected to arrive on Thursday.
According to the State Health Department official, drive vaccination that has been limited to several hundred doses in various parts of the country over the past two days will be carried out smoothly for the remaining periods this month because the country will receive fresh consignment after every two to three days.
Speaking with Toi, Nodal officers for vaccination in the state, Dr.
Ajit Prasad, said: “Vaccination encouragement will not be disrupted in the state until the end of the month because we will get enough shares regularly up to 4.
We have a total of around 1.74 doses of lakh On Wednesday morning and around 88,000 people were vaccinated today.
We will continue to vaccinate more beneficiaries in the same way on Thursday too.
“When asked how the country would manage if the beneficiaries in large quantities were vaccinated every day, Dr.
Prasad said: “We will have around 86,000 doses left with us on Wednesday night and we also received more than 31,000 covaxin doses on Thursday.
Covaxin’s consignment was not sent to us on Wednesday for some operational difficulties.” Meanwhile, the country is set to accept A total of 11,84,000 vaccine doses in the next 14 days.