PUNE: The district received 25,500 more doses of the Covishield vaccine on Monday.
Officials said the resupply will allow civic-run vaccination centres to continue with their drives.
Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director (medical), Pune circle, said, “Of the 25,500 doses that we received for Pune district, around 11,000 doses have been given to Pune rural.
The PMC has been given 9,000 and 5,500 have been distributed to PCMC areas.
We are expecting more vaccine batches later in the week.
Deshmukar said overall supply is expected to pick up pace after June 21.
“We have enough CVCs — Covid vaccination centres — in place.
There are more than 600 CVCs and we can really speed up coverage if we are given more doses,” he said.
Sanjay Patil, chairman of the IMA’s Hospital Board of India, said the Centre should consider drives out of smaller clinics to reach more.
For Tuesday, PMC will have drives for both Covaxin and Covishield.
Around 60 centres will conduct Covishield sessions while 16 will offer Covaxin.
In PCMC limits, only Covaxin drives have been scheduled at 25 CVCs.