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- After 72 Days Minimum 4538 Vaccines Were Given, Only 3.95 Lakh Doses Came In 16 Days, Less Than 3000 Were Being Received In Two Days.
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A long queue of people was seen at Palanpur Center for getting the vaccine. Some of them were able to get the vaccine and some had to return without the vaccine. Photo: Ritesh Patel
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Earlier people were not coming to get the corona vaccine, now when they started coming, the government’s vaccine campaign failed. Because the municipality does not have a vaccine. The situation is that there was not a single dose left on Tuesday. The Regional Vaccine Storage Center has also become empty. Due to this, people will not be able to get vaccines on Wednesday.
There is confusion on applying the vaccine even on Thursday. Only 4538 vaccines were available on Tuesday. This was the first time in 72 days that so few vaccines were administered in a day. Earlier, the lowest 2582 vaccines were administered on 25 April. The government started the vaccine campaign on 21 June.
Since then, till July 6, the Metropolitan Municipality got 395120 doses of the vaccine, while 435003 people were vaccinated i.e. 39883 more vaccines were given than the dose received. The more vaccines that were received, the Metropolitan Municipality has given them to the people from the stock left with them.
Municipality also reduced the center, also reduced the dosage, then how people will get the vaccine
There is such a shortage of vaccine that the Municipal Corporation is not getting more than 3000 doses for the last two days. 3000 doses were received on Monday, while only 2820 doses were received on Tuesday. Because of this, only 4538 vaccines could be administered. On Tuesday, 3205 Covshield, 632 Covaccine, 45 Sputnik vaccines were administered.
701 vaccines were administered in private hospitals. Vaccination was started from 16 January 2021. Initially, Surat had made a state-wide record of administering more than 57 thousand vaccines in a day, but after that it could never reach even 50 thousand. Gradually the speed of vaccination per day decreased.
Hundreds of people have to return disappointed without a vaccine
People are flocking to the centers to get vaccinated. They are queuing since 5 in the morning, but hundreds of people have to return without vaccine. After standing in the queue for the whole day, it is said that the vaccine is over.
Due to the crowd of people and lack of vaccine, the Municipal Corporation has started giving advance tokens now a days. For the last one week, boards were put up at the main gates of vaccination centers at 10 am – today’s token is over.
So far only 14.57 percent of the people have been able to take both the doses.
So far 14.57 percent people in the city have been vaccinated. It has been decided to vaccinate 32 lakh people of the city. Of these, 2184603 people have been vaccinated so far. Of these, 1718137 people have got the first dose and 466466 people have got the second dose of the vaccine.
According to the availability of vaccine, the Municipal Corporation has been increasing the number of vaccination centers. When the vaccination campaign was launched on 21 June. After that on June 21, 22 and 23, the number of vaccination centers was increased to 233. was reduced to 102 on 29 June. There were 172 centers on Monday, but on Tuesday, only 40 centers were vaccinated.
Regional Vaccine Storage Center empty, not a single dose left for today
The vaccine has also been completely exhausted at the Regional Vaccine Storage Center located on the campus of Civil Hospital. Sources say that not a single dose is left. There is no information about whether the stock of the vaccine will come on Wednesday.
Changed plan four times in 16 days
- 29 June The number of vaccine centers was 102 and asked to make 275 vaccines per centre.
- 01 July The number of centers was increased to 162. The number of doses per center was reduced to 100. Along with this, the centers of the first and second vaccines were separated.
- 02 July Municipality increased the number of vaccines per center from 100 to 175.
- 05 July The number of vaccine centers has been increased to 40 and the number of vaccines per center to 75.
Regional Vaccine Storage Center empty, not a single dose left for today
The vaccine has also been completely exhausted at the Regional Vaccine Storage Center located on the campus of the Civil Hospital. Sources say that not a single dose is left. There is no information about whether the stock of the vaccine will come on Wednesday.
We also get to know at 8 pm how many people have to be vaccinated in the morning
As many people are getting the vaccine, as many vaccines are being made available. We also get to know at 8 pm that how many people have to be given the vaccine in the morning.– Dr. Rikita Patel, Health Officer, Municipal