Mumbai: The country includes 40% of teen groups with one shot from the Covid-19 10 day vaccine into the drive.
The center, meanwhile, said on Friday the country did not have a lack of covaxin and added that Maharashtra had more than 24 lats doses that were not intilized.
The state is estimated at 60.6 lakh people in the bracket aged 15-17, among them 24,32,718 have taken their first shot.
Dr.
Sachin Desai, the state immunization officer, said there was an enthusiasm among the groups to be vaccinated, but the footsteps were low because the school was closed now.
On average 1.5 lakh children take shots every day.
Friday, though, seeing a little fall due to Sankranti’s treason.
The state has also provided 2,68,596 booster doses until now, including 66,212 in the city.
In Mumbai, more than 1.2 Lakh’s teenager has been vaccinated.
In Thane and Pune, where vaccination purification has been good since the first day, each of 2.16 lakh and 2.24 lakh children, has been vaccinated.
Civil officials say the number they will see uptick after the drive starts in college and school.
Reacting to media reports that the district who saw a faster dose absorption among teenagers running out of Covaxin, the center said that Maharashtra had more than 24 lakh doses of covaxin which was not intilized.
“The additional 6.5 lakh doses have been received on Friday.
According to their weekly consumption data is available on Cowin, the average consumption by Maharashtra for Covaxin to include beneficiaries that qualifies for 15-17 years and for prevention doses of almost 2.94 The lakh dose per day.
Therefore, the state has an adequate vaccine dose for about 10 days to include beneficiaries that meet the requirements with Covaxin, “the center said.
This adds that the state has 1.24 crore doses of covishield too.
“With an average consumption of 3.57 lakh per day, this will last more than 30 days,” the center said in the release.
However, state officials, said there was no shortage of Covaxin anywhere at this time, but if teen vaccination took steps, they could quickly run out of this dose.
“Shares will be refilled, so we are not worried like now,” said Dr.
Desai.