For the primary time in 9 days, lower than 10,000 folks received the Covid vaccine in Gurgaon on Tuesday because the district confronted a scarcity of vaccines. The state of affairs is more likely to stay the identical on Wednesday as there isn’t a details about the extra inventory from the state authorities to date.
According to the bulletin issued by the district well being division, 9,405 folks had been vaccinated in Gurgaon on Tuesday, by which 5,751 folks received their first and three,645 folks received the second vaccine. The final time this quantity was decrease was on June 27, when 4,143 folks had been vaccinated because the district well being division withheld vaccination for 2 days as an alternative of specializing in the heart beat polio marketing campaign.
With doses of each Covaxin and CovaShield briefly provide, solely 12 vaccination websites had been arrange within the district that day by the well being division, giving folks solely the second dose of CovaShield (seven websites) and Covaxin (5 websites). . Officials stated a complete of 100 pictures had been out there at every web site.
Apart from these, 50 doses for the second dose of Covishield had been additionally out there for worldwide vacationers touring earlier than thirty first August on the Polyclinic in Sector 31. The solely amenities to supply the primary dose had been the cellular vaccine vans which are circling the slums. To vaccinate residents, and camps arrange by UPHC Chandralok at HUDA City Center Metro Station. While 100 first doses of Covishield had been out there within the van, 100 first doses of the identical vaccine had been out there along with the 50 second dose on the metro station.
Vaccination in personal hospitals continued as typical.
“As of now, we have now not acquired any replace from the state authorities relating to additional inventory of vaccines, so the plan will stay the identical for tomorrow as properly. We will give solely the second dose at our authorities facilities, stated Dr Virendra Yadav, Civil Surgeon, Gurgaon.
This drop in vaccination comes after the district has vaccinated greater than 10,000 folks in a single day for a number of consecutive days. While 13,628 folks had been vaccinated on Monday, the quantity was 11,313 on Sunday and 18,059 on Saturday. A complete of 25,172 folks had been vaccinated on Friday final week, whereas 51,241 folks had been vaccinated on Thursday, when the district well being division set a goal to vaccinate 50,000 folks on the event of Doctor’s Day.
A complete of 15,04,052 folks have been vaccinated in Gurgaon to date, the district has crossed the 15 lakh mark on Tuesday itself. With the overall ‘possible inhabitants’ of the district being 17,40,740, because of this 86.40 % of the inhabitants has acquired at the very least one dose of the COVID vaccine.
.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
