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Odisha halts COVID-19 vaccination drive in 1,035 sites due to its acute shortage


Odisha halts COVID-19 vaccination drive in 1,035 sites due to its acute shortage
PTIApr 18, 2021, 10:09 IST
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COVID-19 vaccines,
Odisha government Saturday halted its innoculation drive in over 1,000 session sites including in the hotspot Nuapada district, a senior health department official said. The states vaccine stocks will be exhausted in two days, Family Welfare Director Bijay
Panigrahi said.
Only 56,472 people were given jabs at 465 session sites on Saturday against 91,195 who had been
vaccinated in 781 centres on Friday, he said.
The state has so far vaccinated 49,58,447 people, the health department official said.
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Panigrahi said that the vaccination drive could not be taken up in rural Odisha due to the scarcity of Covishield vaccines.

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