Thiruvananthapuram: The initial trend, where the community is used to rush to the Covid-19 vaccination center but a lack of vaccine supply which causes legal and order problems, seems to have been reversed.
In accordance with the latest figures from the state government (until Friday), there is a stock of 20.44 lakh doses of covid vaccine in the state.
At the same time, there were more than 12 lakh people, who did not appear to take advantage of the second dose of vaccines even after finishing a month after they qualified for the second dose.
These figures, as presented at the review meeting held by the Head of the Head of Pinarayi Vijayan (accessed by TOI) showed that the stock vaccine included 18.27 doses of lakh covishield and 2.17 lakh doses of covaxin.
Stock is a combination of vaccines allocated for the state by the center and purchased by the state government.
While the district of Ernakulam has the highest stock available (more than 2.2L doses), district, including alappuzha (1.63L), Kannur (1.21L), Kollam (1.37L), Kottayam (1.70L), Malappuram (1.51L), Thiruvananthapuram (1.45L) and thrissur (1.61L) have more than one dose of the vaccine lakh available in their stock.
The state has been able to take advantage of optimal vaccine doses since the beginning of vaccination drive.
The numbers show that covagin waste in the country is only 0.11%, while in the case of covishield, waste is a negative number (-4.76%) which means it can manage vaccines to more public amounts than allocated.
Number of doses.
At the same time, numbers indicate that the initial level of inflows for vaccination has slowed, especially after giving their first dose, thus slowing down the overall level of vaccination.
According to these numbers, there are 8,83,063 people who are late in receiving their second vaccination dose (which has surpassed more than 16 weeks after receiving the first dose, while they are scheduled for the second dose in this case in this case Covishield and 3.61,402 people In the case of Covaxin (more than six weeks while they matured in four weeks).
With 1,77,994 people late for the second dose of their vaccines, Ernakulam sustained the list, followed by Thiruvananthapuram (1,40,300), Malappuram (1.33,988) and cozhikode (1,08,027).
Vaccination status also shows that the country quickly edged to resolve 100% vaccination with respect to the first dose of the population.
Until Friday, in the age group 45 years and above, 96% has been given the first dose and 68% has been given a dose Secondly.
In their categories above 60 years, 99.7% have been given the first dose, while 77% have been given the second.
In the age group 18-44 years, 86% of the population has been given the first dose, while 32% have been given the second.
Even among the tribal population, vaccination numbers showed that 90% of those aged 18-44 years and 96% of those above 45 years have been given the first dose, while 44% and 70% respectively, when it comes to the second dose.