Vaccine supply severely hit in Jalandhar

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 22

The Health Department on Thursday inoculated only 160 beneficiaries against Covid-19 on a single day. After the mega vaccine drive on Wednesday where more than 17,000 people were vaccinated and the existing supply exhausted, the district saw just 160 Covaxin being administered at the Garha session site on Thursday.

While over 100 session sites were operational yesterday, merely one was operational today. The district has zero vaccines left to administer to beneficiaries now. A long queue of second shot aspirants could be seen with each passing day of crippling vaccine shortage.

The Health Department in turn is hounded with calls from people, especially NRIs, who needs a quick jab to travel abroad. So far, nearly over 9.50 lakh people in the district have received the vaccine in Jalandhar of whom less than 2 lakh have received the second shot.

District Immunisation Officer Dr Rakesh Chopra said, “We have administered whatever vaccines we had today. Garha site was the only one operational. We don’t know when the next supply of vaccines will be received.”