JAIPUR: The state is left with around two lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine after Saturday’s inoculation.
A senior health department official said, “The doses which were available today morning (Saturday) were 4.5 lakh, but after today’s vaccination, we are now left with around two lakh doses.
Some of the districts have few doses.” The Centre had supplied 3.4 lakh doses on Friday.
Officials said that they are not sure if they are going to receive doses on Sunday.
“Covid has not vanished yet and we have just two solutions for prevention, either 100% vaccination of people or Covid-appropriate behaviour (use of masks etc).
We are putting effort for 100% vaccination, but it depends on the Centre which supplies the vaccines to us.
We can vaccinate people as we are receiving the doses from the Centre.
We have facilities to vaccinate 15 lakh doses daily,” said Raghu Sharma, health minister.
“We have demanded 1.5crore doses from the Centre for July.
We have eight crore people and if we vaccinate two doses, we require 16 crore doses.
So far, we have vaccinated more than 2.3 crore doses till date,” he said.
Besides, the state reported five Covid deaths after reporting zero deaths on Thursday and Friday.
Deaths were reported from Udaipur (2), Rajsamand (1), Pali (1) and Jodhpur (1).
Besides, 141 others tested positive for Covid in the state on Saturday bringing its overall tally to 9,51,967.
With five deaths, state’s toll rose to 8,910.
Districts which reported new cases are Alwar (37), Jaipur (20), Jodhpur (9), Udaipur (9),Jhalawar (7), Barmer (6), Nagaur (6), Hanumangarh (6), Bhilwara (4), Bikaner (4), Chittorgarh (4), Rajsamand (3), Sikar (3), Churu (2), Dausa (2), Dholpur (2), Jhunjhunu (2), Sirohi (2), Pali (2), Jaisalmer (2), Karauli (2), Sriganganagar (2), Ajmer (2), Bharatpur (1), Kota (1) and Pratapgarh (1).