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Lack of vaccine derails jab drive again

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Ranchi: Some districts, including Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Bokaro, are likely to stop the Covid-19 vaccination drive again from Monday as inadequate stock.
The powerful party in the state on Sunday attacked the Government Government to this problem and said without the smooth supply of drug-saving drugs and vaccines, a number of people tended to be a victim who expected the third wave of pandemics.
On Sundays, the Ranchi district can only provide 180 doses of covishield on one site session (Ag Office) while the rest of the vaccination center is closed.
Civil Surgeon Ranchi Vinod Kumar said they had spent 22,000 doses they received a few days ago.
“If we get a vaccine tonight (Sunday night), the drive will be held tomorrow or will be closed throughout Ranchi.
Ranchi has around 22 Lakh populations that qualify for vaccinations that we need 44 lakh doses.
So far, only about 25% of the population , which is around seven lakh, gets two doses, “he told toi.
In Jamshedpur, the district government has announced the closure of all session sites until July 21, when the Ministry of Health is expected to receive a new dosage consignment.
A state health department official who deals with shares said, “In accordance with the schedule, we expect 2,13,340 covishield doses and 31,130 covaxin on July 21.” The department said on Sunday night, only 89,897 doses were available.
“The actual numbers will be smaller when the Sunday vaccination number comes night.
The state government has set a vaccination target of 1,00,400 people per day but with the availability of vaccines, we have stock only for 0.9 days.
In other words, shares do not Enough to continue the journey tomorrow, “said the official.
On Saturday, 79,233 doses were given in a state of 57,579 the first dose and the other second dose, the department vaccination bulletin said.
In the case of cumulative coverage, 67.95,819 people have received their first dose and 14.84,426 get both Jab, so far.
Reacting to the crisis, Minister of Health of Banna Gupta, who is currently in Delhi, blames the United States for the situation.
“We constantly face bias in vaccine allocation by the central government compared to other countries that get a good number of doses regularly,” he told reporters there.
In Ranchi, his party, Congress, which is part of the Alliance in power too, attacks the center of this problem.
ALOK DUBEY Party spokesman said, “At the time of vaccination it must be intensified, we routinely face obstacles while driving inoculation.
The Jharkhand government has a capacity to quickly vaccinate the people with more than one lakh people every day as long as we are given stock in the middle.

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