Finance
By: Shree1news, 01 MAY 2021
BHUBANESWAR: THE Odisha Government on Friday received 1.5 lakh doses of Covaxin vaccine from Bharat Biotech as the first consignment of the State’s personal procurement without cost vaccination of 18 to 44 years age group. Additional Chief Secretary of Health PK Mohapatra stated the vaccine will be administered to age-appropriate people in Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation limits for which slots might be opened on CoWIN portal for sessions to be held from Monday onwards.
“However, the State will have a trial symbolic commencement of the free vaccination of 18-44 years age group with inoculation of a few beneficiaries on Saturday. There will be no full fledged vaccination in the weekend in view of the lockdown within the urban areas of the State,” he informed. As many as 81,161 people had been administered vaccines by means of 451 session sites on Friday. In the meantime, the government on Friday demanded that Centre should immediately supply at least 25 lakh doses of Covishield to proceed with the sessions regularly.
Stating that Odisha is going through a crsis because of very low and erratic supply of Covishield vaccine, the Minister stated that until date the State has received 53,32,870 doses and the stock available now is only 1.05 lakh. The Minister stated that between April 20 and 29, Odisha received only 2.9 lakh doses of Covishield in three allocations which was insufficient.
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