Ahmedabad: City on July 3 has recorded 45,444 total doses of Covid-19 vaccine – one of the highest in a month.
On Thursday, the number dropped to 35,653.
Despite the fact that state administration has claimed to have obtained a regular supply of vaccines, and vaccination is the only shooting drug against the possibility of the third wave of covid pandemic.
But the trend revealed that in two weeks city vaccination fell 20% – from 24,400 to 19,500 daily vaccinations on average between June 26 and 10-15 July according to Cowin data.
But the letter recorded a sharp decline of 52% – from 26,000 daily vaccines to 12,667 in two weeks.
Likewise Junagadh, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar recorded 42%, 39% and 35% fell in vaccination in two weeks.
Likewise, Gujarat reported down 38% in vaccination in Covid daily average in two weeks from 2.78 lakh to 1.72 lakh.
When compared with 10 Indian states with the highest total vaccination (both doses), the second ranked country after Madhya Pradesh which recorded a 47% decline.
In comparison, Rajasthan recorded a 9% increase while other neighboring Maharashtra recorded a decline of 29%.
While Dr.
Nayan Jani, the country’s immunization officer, was not available for comments, a senior health department official said that the decline could be caused by the gap created by four days in the past week where vaccination has not yet occurred.
“There is no vaccination from Wednesday to Friday, and this Wednesday is because of the obedience of Mamta Divas.
Again there will be vaccinations on Sunday, now and so on, to provide vaccination staff rest,” the official said.
But the state includes aggressive vaccination as one of the primary thrust in preparedness for the third wave and has also set a 4-lakh target of daily vaccination, which is only achieved several times.