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Record 37,725 Take Jab in Nagpur on Sunday

NAGPUR: A record 37,725 people took the jab on Sunday when Covid vaccination resumed in the city after a gap of three days.
Due to shortage of doses, it however take a hit from Monday.
As it received 41,500 doses on Friday, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) opened 141 centres where Covishield is given free of cost.
Covaxin continued to be administered in five centres.
A 33,506 people took Covishield and 1,092 Covaxin for a total of 34,598 at NMC centres.
Another 3,127 took the jab at 11 private centres.
The previous day high was on July 7 — 36,584.
Due to shortage of doses, the NMC has decided to vaccinate only 45-plus at Covishield centres on Monday.
Inoculation will continue for 18-plus at Covaxin centres.
The demand for vaccination has increased since it resumed for 18-44 years on June 23.
But vaccination could happen only on seven of the last 19 days due to insufficient and irregular supply of doses.
As the zilla parishad (ZP) received 28,500 doses of Covishield a day ago, vaccination resumed at 117 centres where 18,089 people took the jab.
The ZP will continue vaccination on Monday.
On Sunday, the district total of was 55,814.
The state’s public health department is reportedly considering performance of last three days for allocation of doses to the districts.
63,485 people had taken the jab on July 7 and 42,475 on July 3.
The total of last three sessions comes to 1,61,774 for an average of 53,924 which is more compared with previous one.

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