Several private hospitals that have resumed vaccination after weeks are seeing a sharp rise in the number of prospective recipients turning up for the shot
Among the patients who died since the outbreak till Thursday, 72.6 per cent had comorbidities, which means 27.4 per cent of the victims had no comorbidities
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Several private hospitals have finalised deals for Covid vaccines - Covishield, Covaxin and Russian-made Sputnik V - and the consignments are expected to start coming from next week, officials of the healthcare units said on Tuesday.
Only a handful of private hospitals are now administering Covid vaccines. Tens of thousands of vaccine recipients are waiting for other healthcare units to receive supplies and resume the vaccination drive.
The drive has remained suspended at most private vaccination centres since May 1 because of lack of supplies. The private centres now have to directly procure doses from the manufacturers.
Most hospitals were communicating with the manufacturers Serum Institute of India for Covishield and Bharat Biotech for Covaxin for over a month, but the companies were not promising supplies.