Bengaluru: Apart from the target of state managing at least 5 doses of lakh a day, the government has succeeded in stabbing only around 2.7 lakh per day in the first 15 days of October, compared to 5.1 lakh between September 15 and September 30 and 15, the state gave more Of the 41.1 dose of the lakh, which was only half of 81.9 doses of lakh given between September 15 and 30.
of those given as far as October, more than 26.7 lakh was the second dose, while more than 14.3 First lakh.
Officials at the Department of Health and Family Welfare, while repeating that there is no problem on the supply side, pointing to the large gap between the covishield dose, the challenges identify those who qualify for the second dose, and religious doubts for decreased daily vaccination.
Because almost nine of the 10 doses of vaccines managed in the state are covishield, officials say the reduction in gaps between doses can accelerate the second coverage in all districts.
“Given 80% of the eligible population has been covered with one dose, we have completed the easy part of this program.
The last leg of vaccination is more challenging, because we need to identify people, deal with doubts and other problems.
We adopt several approaches And sure to be successful, “said a senior department official.
MK Sudharshan, Chairperson, Covid-19 State Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), while showing that the panel has recommended that the gap between the reduced dose, said: “It is something that must be decided by the center.
From our side, we think that the gap is good okay at first as we need to cover as much as possible people with the first dose, but now we have achieved it, the focus must shift to the second dose.
“90 lakh hasn’t received the first dosas at 4 pm on Saturday (October 16), The government has provided more than 6 doses of crore vaccines – more than 5.3 crores (88%) are covishield and more than 70.7 lakh (11.6%) covaxin.
About 50% of the dose has been given to men, while more than 3 crores or 49.6% for women.
From a population that meets more than 4.9 crore, the state has managed to manage at least one dose to more than 4.07 crores or 81.8%.
More than 2 crores or 40.2% of the eligible population have been fully inoculated.
This means that more than 90.2 Lakh people among the eligible populations have not received the first dose, while more than 2.07 crore people who have received the first dose still need to get the second jab, but not all of them are eligible for it immediately given the gap.
“Until now, around 30 Lakh people qualified for the second dose.
However, we found that many of them have not appeared for vaccinations, which could be because of the celebration season.
We hope that daily vaccination has increased in the second half of the month,” Dr.
Arundathi Chandrashekhar, MD, National Health Mission (Karnataka), to Stoi.
He added the country has received around 50 doses of lakh in October and is scheduled to get a total of at least 1.3 crores for a full month.
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