Centre opens walk-ins for all, but where are the vaccines?

Onsite registration and appointment has now been enabled for the 1844 years age group on the CoWin platform for Covid19 vaccination the Union Health Ministry said on Monday But this feature is being enabled only for government Covid Vaccination Centres CVCs at present it saidThe coverage of vaccination was expanded to people in the age group of 18 to 44 years on May 1 with the facility of only online appointment to avoid overcrowding at the centresThe walkin registration will be used only upon decision of respective states and UT governments States and UT must decide on opening of onsite registrationsfacilitated cohortsrsquo registration and appointments for 1844 years age group based on the local context just as an additional measure to minimise vaccine wastage and for facilitating vaccination of eligible beneficiaries in the age group of 1844 years the ministry said in its statementAlso Read Mumbai sees drop in new cases of Covid19Shortage of shotsThe announcement comes at a time when some state are pausing vaccination of 1844 years category Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday said the state was facing a severe shortage of vaccines and has barely twothree days of shots left in its stock for the 1844 years category He said Jharkhand got barely 40 lakh doses of vaccines against a requirement of 4 crore doses leading to the shortageSoren said the Centre failed to alert states and take necessary measures even as it had prior knowledge of the second wave of the pandemicDelhi shut all the 400 vaccination sites for the 1844 age group after the vaccine stock was over Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday The centres giving Covaxin to the 45 age group healthcare and frontline workers have also been shut due to unavailability of shots he addedNo deal with states PfizerStressing that vaccination is the need of the hour to protect people against the coronavirus Sisodia said they have spoken to Moderna Pfizer and Johnson amp and Johnson for vaccinesldquoPfizer and Moderna have refused to sell us directly saying they are talking to the Centre The Centre has not approved Pfizer and Moderna whereas the world over they have been approved and bought by countriesrdquo he saidlsquoReadying for 3rd waversquoDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said his government has imported 6000 oxygen cylinders from China which will be stored at three depots and used in case of a third wave of coronavirusKejriwal also said the second wave is waning gradually and the city government has started preparations for a possible third wave ldquoAround 6000 oxygen cylinders have been airlifted from China of which we have received 4400 The remaining 1600 will arrive within two to three daysrdquo he told reportersThe Gujarat government said it will continue with the online registration system for the 1844 years age groupGujarat Health and Family Welfare Department issued a statement saying this new feature of ldquoon the spot registrationrdquo will not be applicable in the state for nowSC unhappy with migrant workersrsquo registrationThe Supreme Court on Monday said the process of registration of migrant workers is ldquovery slowrdquo and it must be expedited so that benefit of various schemes can be extended to them amid the Covid19 pandemic ldquoThe process of registration is very slow We are not happy with the efforts undertaken by the Centre and states on registration of unorganised workersrdquo the bench said The SC stressed that the benefit of schemes for them can be extended after they are identified and registered by authoritiesSpiceJet crew offrostered for midair wedding in violation of Covid normsThe Directorate General of Civil Aviation has offrostered the crew of a SpiceJet flight in which a wedding took place midair with several guests and relatives violating Covid19 norms The district administration has launched a probe The wedding took place on Sunday on a chartered flight that left the Madurai airport and remained airborne for approximately two hours sources said on Monday The crew was offrostered for not enforcing the Covid19 safety norms onboard26752447Total no of coronavirus cases in India so far303720Total no of deaths due to the virus in India so far2720716Total no of active cases in IndiaThis 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