Telangana requests the Centre to supply 50 lakh doses of Covishield
Hyderabad, Aug.9 (Maxim News): Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao has written to Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya requesting the supply of at least 50 lakh doses of Covishield vaccines to the State to ramp up the pace of precautionary doses administration.
In a letter addressed to the Union Minister on August 8, Harish Rao said the Telangana government has decided to take up a massive drive to administer precautionary doses to the eligible population.
Presently, Telangana is administering about 1.5 lakh doses per day. However, based on the demand there is a potential to distribute over 3 lakh precautionary doses per day which the State is unable to meet as there is the shortage of vaccine supplies, particularly Covishield,” the Health Minister said in the letter.
He has informed that the State has only 2.7 lakh doses of Covishield which is not sufficient even for two days. COVID vaccine first dose coverage, for people above 18 years, in the State is 106%, and the second dose coverage is 104%.
Harish Rao further wrote,” Telangana is receiving vaccines in small quantities only after a continuous request from the State, due to which there has been an inability to ramp up vaccination from present levels,”.
Requesting more supply of vaccine, Harish Rao said ” I request you to supply at least 50 lakhs doses of Covishield vaccine to Telangana urgently to enable the State to ramp up the pace of precautionary doses,”. (Maxim News)
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