Rajasthan: Limited supply of Covid-19 vaccines reduces the drive to 1,948 centres

JAIPUR: A lot of centres in the state that were conducting Covid-19 vaccinations have stopped it as supply has been hit due to limited supply of vaccines. The state received only 66,500 doses of vaccines on Monday and there is no information about further supply.
The state had around 3.5 lakh doses available at vaccination centres till Monday night. Due to limited supply of vaccines, the health department had to scale down the vaccination drive.Even the beneficiaries had to return empty-handed from government centres as vaccination was stopped temporarily.
On April 7 the state had administered 5.8 lakh doses. However, since then the number of those vaccinated went down. However, on April 12, the state witnessed increase in vaccinations as 2,00,923 doses were administered. The state had received 4 lakh doses on Sunday.
Health minister Raghu Sharma said, “We have been receiving 1.11 crore vaccine doses from the Centre daily. We have crossed 1 crore vaccination for Covid-19, second in the country after Maharashtra.”
Though the state has achieved the milestone of vaccinating 1 crore, many centres in the state stopped vaccination temporarily due to limited availability. On Monday, 1,948 sessions were held in the state while on April 7, the state had organized 4,129 sessions. On April 7, the state had vaccinated 5.8 lakh, which is an all-time high in a day. Since, then the health department has had to scale down the vaccination. On Sunday, which was the first day of Tika Utsav, 1,296 vaccination sessions were organised in which 1,11,377 doses were given.