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By: Shree1news, 11 APR 2021
Bhubaneswar: Even as the nation’s special four-day vaccination programme ‘Tika Utsav’ kicked off today to inoculate maximum number of eligible beneficiaries against COVID-19, the States like Odisha is running out of shots.
The scarcity of vaccines still continued following which 900 session sites have been closed so far in the State.
“Currently, the vaccine shots are being administered at 579 centres in Odisha. As many as 900 centres have been shut because of ‘erratic’ and ‘insufficient’ stock.” informed State Health & Family Welfare Director BIjay Panigrahi today.
On Saturday, 1,13,563 beneficiaries have received the shots. So far, 42,97,032 persons have been vaccinated within the State.
Yesterday, 2.5 lakh Covishield vaccine had reached the State following which it was despatched to various districts.
“At present, total 3.1 lakh vaccines (2,33,658 doses of Covishield and 77,960 doses of Covaxin) can be found with us. The stock will be exhausted tomorrow. If we will not receive more doses of vaccines, the inoculation programme will be disrupted,” Panigrahi stated.
Earlier, many districts in Odisha had run out of vaccine stocks. Following repeated requests from the State Government, the Centre had sent 2.5 lakh doses of Covishield to the State.
Source:A-N
