Mumbai: Covaxin doses unavailable at centres; citizens fume

Vaccination centres in Mumbai did not administer Covaxin for the second consecutive day on Monday because of lack of stock leaving citizens fuming as many of them are due for their second dose of the vaccine against Covid19The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC through its Twitter handle released a list if 105 vaccination centres that would be functional on Monday but informed that these would be administering only the Covishield vaccineList of centres that will vaccinate 45s Please check the list for details of time amp vaccine being administered at respective centresVaccine will be administered to ones with online booking Walkin only for Health Care Workers and Frontline Workers MyBMCVaccinationUpdate pictwittercomky7TZbeFCNmdash Mumbai BMC mybmc May 9 2021On Sunday also the BMC had not administered Covaxin to the beneficiaries due to unavailability of the vaccineSeveral citizens expressed anger and frustration at the state of affairs as many of them are due for their second dose since they had taken the first jab over 42 days backAlso ReadMaharashtra needs Covaxin doses as 45 lakh people due for second shot Health Minister Rajesh TopeAs per the government guidelines the recommended gap between two doses of Covaxin is foursix weeks and for Covishield the suggested interval is foureight weeksA citizen argues with an official at a vaccination centre in Mumbai Pic Satej ShindeLocal resident Rupesh Lingayat took to Twitter to express his frustrationMy father took 1st dose of Covaxin now it is impossible to get 2nd dose of Covaxin and its been 43 days since took 1st dose He is 63 Please help he tweetedVaccine is out of stock for the third day at the NESCO Jumbo COVID19 facility in Goregaon on Monday Video Credit satejss pictwittercomhBBfAm5utRmdash Mid Day mid_day May 10 2021Another resident Param Sampat also tweeted that his sister had got a booking on Saturday for 35 pm slot but when she reached at 245 pm authorities told her they were out of stock gave her a token for MondayToday when she reached at 8 she was denied a vaccine This is absolutely irresponsible he tweetedThe BMCs executive health officer Mangala Gomare did not respond to calls or text messages on the lack of Covaxin doses in the cityAccording to a BMC report a total of 176505 people have been administered Covaxin doses in the city including 120167 who have received the first dose and 56338 who have got the second dose as wellTill Sunday evening 2700431 people were vaccinated in Mumbai against Covid19 These included 2052963 beneficiaries who have taken the first dose and 647468 people who have received their second dose the report saidCurrently there are 175 active vaccination centres in Mumbai included 81 run by the BMC 20 by the state government and 74 private facilitiesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever