AHMEDABAD: The city’s actual demand for vaccines is 85K doses a day.
But its dose supply is merely 27% of the demand.
The civic body has blamed this shortage for the sharp decline in vaccinations in the city.
Also, many citizens who had already taken their first Covishield dose were told that the vaccinating centres had only Covaxin.
This happened in Paldi, Thaltej, Naranpura, Baghe Firdaus, Vatva, Naroda, Vastral, and a few other areas.
Apart from the shortage, another major reason given by civic officials is the high rate of Covid infections in the Ahmedabad population in April and May.
The officials say this led many Amdavadis to delay their vaccination for six to eight weeks as mandated by the health authorities.
On Sunday, as against the usual 282 vaccination centres that function, just 109 centres were operational.
“Most vaccination centres had to be closed early and a ‘No Vaccine’ board hung outside them owing to the short supply of Covishield,” admits a senior AMC official.
The AMC is using only 70% of the 35K-odd vaccines that are reaching it every day, thus allowing some vaccines to pile up to escalate the drive over the next three days.
“Vaccinations will pick up over the next four days to 35K a day and then 55K a day,” the official said.
“We were told that some of the stock has been diverted to other states where vaccinations are yet to pick up.
It will take three days for the logistics to be smoothened.”