Jaipur: Justifying the request for 2 doses of covid crore vaccine for August, the Ministry of Health has shown that they need 80 doses of lakh for those who have received the first dose and need to get the second dose in August.
“A total of 80 LAKH recipients are now eligible to receive the second dose.
However, this center has allocated only more than 53 lakh doses for August.
If we vaccinate only those who are now eligible for the second dose in August, we need at least 80 doses of lakh However, the allocation for the country for August is only more than 53 doses of lakh, “said a health department official.
Taking this problem, Health Minister Raghu Sharma had written a letter to the Minister of Health of Mansukh Mandaviya to increase the dose allocation for August.
The number of beneficiaries in the country is 5.14 crore, and to vaccinate them, the Ministry of Health requires 10.28 doses of crore.
But, until now, only more than 3.87 doses of crore have been given.
However, more than 6.4 doses of Crore are needed by the Ministry of Health to vaccinate the population that qualifies for vaccination in the state.
If the country continues to receive the same number of doses allocated by the center for a month, it will take at least six to 10 months to fully vaccinate people who are eligible for vaccination in the state.
Health experts claim that to avoid the third wave, the need for hours is to increase vaccination against Covid and also people must follow the appropriate Covid behavior.
On Thursday, until 6pm, the number of doses given was 2.6 lakh, where 1.8 lakh was the first dose and more than 80,000 was the second dose.