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India faces vaccine shortages as daily cases hit record high
A sign outside a vaccination centre in Mumbai, which is in Maharashtra, the current epicentre of India s epidemic. Maharashtra state s health minister has warned that vaccine supplies would run out in three days. PHOTO: AFP
Over 700 million people to be hit by shortfall, with some regions tightening curbs on activity
Apr 09, 2021 06:00 am
MUMBAI: More than 700 million people across India were facing coronavirus vaccine shortages yesterday, local media reported.
India saw more than 126,000 new infections in the past 24 hours, a record high.
Several regions have tightened curbs on activity while Maharashtra, the current epicentre of India s epidemic and home to Mumbai, is set to enter a lockdown at the weekend.
Covid-19 vaccination: Is India running out of doses?
image captionVaccination centres have shut down in Mumbai, one of the worst-hit cities
For the past two days, Sanjay Kumar has been trying to get himself and his ageing mother vaccinated against coronavirus in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. I called up three private hospitals in my neighbourhood and all of them said they had run out of doses, says Dr Kumar, a social scientist, who lives in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of Delhi.
One of them is a 50-bed neighbourhood hospital. We have zero stock of vaccines and are not taking bookings because people come for jabs and get into fights (when we tell them we have no stocks), a front office worker said. At another hospital where Dr Kumar unsuccessfully sought a booking, officials said they had run out of doses on Wednesday evening. We have no other option but to turn people away, an employee said.
Coronavirus Cases Updates: Over 1.19 crore people in the country have recovered.
New Delhi: India has set another record of daily Covid cases with 1,31,968 infections in the last 24 hours, pushing the total case count to over 1.3 crore. The surge, much steeper than last year s first wave, has forced many states have imposed tight curbs.
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This is the fourth time in five days when India reported over one lakh new cases. 1,67,64 people have died of COVID-19 in India, with 780 deaths in the last 24 hours. India is the third worst-hit country after the United States and Brazil.
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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday dismissed as “farce” the hue and cry by certain states about partisanship by the Centre on the issue of allocation of vaccines. Vardhan said 9.1 crore vaccine doses had been utilised, while 2.4 crore were in stock and 1.9 crore were in the pipeline, indicating there were sufficient doses available for all states.
Not enough for Maha
Why Maharashtra is getting fewer doses as compared to other states like Gujarat and MP, even as it has the highest number of active cases. Rajesh Tope, Maha Health Minister
“Hue and cry by certain states about partisanship by the Centre is just a farce. It is an attempt to hide their own incompetence. Maharashtra and Rajasthan are two of the top three states based on allocation of vaccine doses,” Vardhan said in a tweet.