JAIPUR: There will be no vaccination for the age-group 18-44 in Jaipur and whole of Rajasthan till June 9, when about 9 lakh doses of Covishield vaccines are expected to arrive in the state.
On Wednesday, only 8,834 doses of vaccines were administered to this age-group.
“We are expecting that around 9 lakh doses of Covishield vaccines will arrive in the state on June 9.
As far as Covaxin is concerned, we don’t have information about the date of its arrival as of now.
There will be no vaccination for this age group in the state till the vaccines arrive,” said nodal officer for vaccination in the state Dr Raghuraj Singh.
“We have a sufficient amount of vaccines for the age-group 45 plus.” The Centre had allocated around 13 lakh vaccines for this age group for the month of June.
For the 18-44 age group, 9.56 lakh doses of Covishield will arrive in June.
Around 3.13 lakh doses of Covaxin for the 18+ age group will also come in June.
The state government has been allocated 18.75 lakh doses of vaccines (both Covishield and Covaxin) for the age group 45+ for the month of June.
Meanwhile, the requirement of liquid oxygen in the state has gone down to 220 metric tonnes with active cases going down to 27,408.
According to an official, 7,100 oxygen beds (including ventilators and oxygen beds) were occupied in the state as of June 2.
There are more than 24,000 oxygen beds in the state.
The state is currently lifting 60-80MTs of liquid oxygen daily from Jamnagar and Bhiwadi plants.