PUNE: The supply of Covishield and Covaxin is expected to be streamlined from this week onwards, said officials from the public health services department of the Pune circle.
The district received around 29,000 doses of Covaxin on Saturday evening.
Of the total, 12,000 Covaxin doses were distributed to Pune rural areas, 10,000 to areas under Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), and around 7,000 to Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).
The district is likely to receive a large amount of Covishield doses on Monday, added an official.
The inconsistent vaccine supply has affected the pace of daily vaccination across the district severely since the second week of April.
In the first week of April, the district had witnessed daily vaccination of over 85,000 jabs in a single day.
However, after the supply of doses was hit, the average vaccination per day has remained between 10,000 to 15,000 jabs, per day.
Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director (medical), health services, Pune circle, told TOI, “We were expecting the Covishield stock on Sunday.
However, it will now be made available on Monday.
We are hoping to get more than 50,000 doses of the vaccine.
Apart from that, we have been informed by the state authorities that the stock will be replenished at least twice this week.” Subhash Salunke, advisor to the state government on Covid-19 and former director-general of health services (Maharashtra), said that streamlining vaccination is the only solution to tackle the next wave of Covid-19.
Meanwhile, officials of the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad civic bodies had to keep the vaccination shut on Sunday owing to the shortage of doses.
Vaccination at private hospitals remained underway without any hassle.
On Monday’s vaccination drive, the PMC stated that it will conduct a Covishield vaccination drive across 56 centres while Covaxin will be administered across 16 centres.
The slots for both vaccines can be booked via the CoWin app at 8am on Monday.
PCMC officials stated that the civic body will conduct Covishield vaccination sessions across 64 centres.
Covaxin shots will not be administered in PCMC areas on Monday.