Pune: Deputy Chief of Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday directing the District Health Authority to accelerate the Covid vaccination process and give priority to manage the second dose to ensure that more people are fully vaccinated.
“I have directed the administration to focus on completing the second dose and then focuses on those who are looking for their first jab,” said the pawar to reporters after the Covid-19 weekly district meeting.
About 70 lakh people have been vaccinated in the district so far.
Ajit Pawar said the district government has approached a private hospital that has several vaccine doses, which will soon be expired.
He said they had expressed their interest in sharing doses with the government, which would be refilled as soon as new shares arrived.
Deputy Minister’s head also said the division commissioner had spoken with the Authority of the Indian Serum Institute (SII) for some additional supply for Pune.
“They said they would consider requests even though they were under extraordinary pressure to supply vaccines throughout the country,” he said, adding that additional doses of SII would be used in slums in the city.
He said the state would also follow up with Bharat Biotech, which will conduct a pilot rotation of the manufacturing vaccine in the pune unit at the end of September or October.
“Every time it is ready for the inauguration, the state will submit a request for more inventory,” he told toi.
‘Booster Shot only after the entire vaxxed population’ Deputy Minister Ajit Pawar said the state positive state of the dose of the Covid vaccine booster, but the priority now is to complete two doses.
Reacting to the chairman of the emphasis on Cyrus Poonawalla at a recent booster dose, Ajit Pawar said it would be discussed so vaccination 18 and above was finished.
As previously done, the decision will be taken who will get a booster dose on the priority, he added.
The existing relaxation to continue the existing relaxation will continue in the district this week because it registers a weekly pet county rate of less than 5% (WPR).
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) area registered 2.5% of WPR, the Pimbri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) limit recorded 3.2% and rural areas of Pune registered 3.9% Wpr.
Deputy Minister of Chief, Ajit Pawar, said the district prepared to ensure adequate infrastructure, especially oxygen plants in each taluka, to ensure that there was no shortage of oxygen supply if there was a third wave