Noida / Ghaziabad: Drive mega vaccination, plans to be held in Noida and Ghaziabad on Thursday, can be held at least until Monday or even until the second half of July.
Inoculation drives are postponed when the required vaccine dose does not arrive in the NCR district.
The Head of the Medical Officer (Noida) Dr.
Deepak Ohri, meanwhile, said there was no walk-in vaccination which would be permitted for the first dose in the city.
Ohri said only those who had done pre-registered on the Co-Win portal would be given the first dose in Noida until further orders.
On Thursday, 5,332 recipients received their first shots and 1,457 got their second shot.
On that day, Noida received 5,800 covishield doses and around 7,000 covaxin doses – which will be used on Friday.
Meanwhile, Ghaziabad received 8,700 doses on Wednesday and 9,000 on Thursday.
Officials said they did not know when the consignment for Mega Drive would be handed over to them.
Previously, Ghaziabad had announced that it would manage more than 40,000 shooting vaccines per day in 568 clusters from 1.
July state officials said that because the central government supplying vaccines now, the state receives five eight lakh doses every day, which is distributed among all districts.
However, to run vaccinations at a good level – similar to June -, the state requires 15-20 lakh doses every day.
Up inoculation of 1.25 crore people in June, the highest in this country.
State immunization officer, Dr.
Ajay Ghai said, “We send vaccines to the district every day, depending on any stock supplied by the central government.
Regular vaccination is being carried out, but we cannot do a cluster-based mega drive planned for July This dose.
However, we have been told that the supply of producers is expected to increase in the second half of July.
“The Minister of Health should launch a drive on Monday in Noida.
Even though he visited Noida, the launch event planned at CHC Bibrakh had to be canceled because there were no vaccines available.
Officials said that new drives might not start before Monday.
“We have started ordinary covid vaccination in some centers.
Like and when we get more doses, we will add to the center.
We open less online slots and try those who have registered before should not have to get back without getting a vaccine,” said Dr.
Deepak Ohri, the Head of the Medical Officer, Noida.