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Rajesh Tope said, We have a vaccine wastage rate of 3% in Maharashtra which is half of the national average vaccine wastage rate of 6 per cent
The Health Minister hinted at the possibility of new strains of COVID-19 in the state as some patients are showing behaviours other than routine ones
Mumbai: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday (April 7) that the price of COVID-19 drug Remdesivir to be capped between Rs 1100-1400 per dose, citing the high number of daily consumption in the state,
Addressing a press conference over the COVID-19 situation in the state on Wednesday, Maharashtra Health Minister said, The price of COVID19 drug Remdesivir to be capped between Rs 1100-1400 per dose. We need a high number of Remdesivir doses as 50,000 doses are consumed daily in the state.
India reports over 1.25 lakh new Covid-19 cases; Centre, states spar over vaccine shortage | 10 points
With over 1.25 lakh new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, India recorded its highest single-day spike since the beginning of the pandemic last year. Maharashtra alone reported nearly 60,000 cases.
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UPDATED: April 8, 2021 09:20 IST
Covid-19 cases in India have been rising at an exponential rate over the past fortnight. (Photo: Reuters)
At least four states are staring at a coronavirus vaccine shortage even as the daily Covid-19 case count breached the 1.25 lakh-mark for the first time since the pandemic began last year.
Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh have formally informed the Centre about their fast depleting stock of Covid-19 vaccines, while Chhattisgarh and Odisha said they too were facing a similar shortage.
Rajesh Tope
MUMBAI: State public health minister Rajesh Tope met Union health minister Harsh Vardhan in Delhi on Tuesday to seek more vaccine doses and decentralisation of the vaccination drive.
Tope s visit comes a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi s meeting with chief ministers to review the Covid19 situation and progress on immunisation. The Union government has been critical about the surge in Maharashtra and the slow pace of inoculation in the state.
Tope said the state will need 2.2 crore doses to immunise all who are eligible in the second phase. The number is around 1.77 crore, of which over 31 lakh have got at least one dose. “We need a supply of 2.2 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the next three-and-a-half months. And, if this supply is done in a staggered manner, the Centre should give 20 lakh doses to the state each week,” said Tope. In the past few days, hospitals in Pune and Thane have faced shortage of Covishield, owing to which some slowed down the
COVID-19: Maharashtra government wants to inoculate 3 lakh people per day, says Rajesh Tope
Mirror Online / Updated: Mar 17, 2021, 18:04 IST
Maharashtra Health Minister
Rajesh Tope on Wednesday said that the state government wants to administer COVID-19 vaccines to three lakh people on a daily basis, which is why it has demanded 20 lakh doses for each week from the Centre.
Responding to Union Minister
Prakash Javadekar’s tweet that 56 per cent of the vaccine doses sent to Maharashtra till March 12 were still unused, he said that at present, Maharashtra has a vaccine stock that will last only for the next 10 days.
“With all due respect to Javadekar, I have already informed the