A record 63,485 take jab in Nagpur on Wednesday, no vaccine for 18-44 in city today

NAGPUR: A record 63,485 people took the jab in the district on Wednesday after the vaccination programme resumed in free-of-cost Covishield centres of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) after a break of three days. There will be no vaccination for the 18-44 age group in the civic body’s Covishield centres on Thursday due to shortage of doses.
After getting 46,000 doses of Covishield on Tuesday, the NMC facilitated this vaccine for 18-plus people at 140 centres on Wednesday. Nearly 32,269 people took Covishield.
The civic body continued Covaxin at five centres where 1,201 took the jab. Thus, 33,470 vaccinations took place at NMC’s centres.
On Wednesday, at 12 private vaccination centres, 3,114 took the jab. Therefore, total vaccination was 36,584 in the city on Wednesday which was the highest-ever in a day since vaccination programme commenced on January 16. Previous highest vaccination in the city was 36,584 on June 7. The NMC has been left with around 13,500 doses of Covishield.
NMC additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi said vaccination will continue only for 45-plus people on Thursday due to shortage of doses. “Vaccination for above 18 will resume after supply of fresh stock from the government. Vaccination of 18 plus will continue at centres of Covaxin on Thursday,” he said.
After taking a hit in a majority of centres in the last two days, the zilla parishad (ZP) resumed vaccination on Wednesday. It received 31,600 doses of Covishield a day ago. A record inoculation of 26,901 was done in rural areas of the district on Wednesday.
The previous highest vaccination was 25,685 in rural on April 3. The ZP will continue inoculation for the above 18 category on Thursday.
The demand for vaccination has increased since the government resumed inoculation for the 18-44 age group on June 23. Vaccination took place only on six out of the last 15 days. The government is not supplying sufficient number of doses.
In the city, vaccination will be hit for the tenth time in the last 16 days due to shortage of doses.
The district will get a boost after record vaccination on Wednesday. The state’s public health department had stated that doses are being distributed on the basis of three days of past performance of the districts. The daily average performance of the district was 41,532 till Tuesday as it did not receive doses in high quantity.
The previous highest vaccination in a day was 45,839 in the district on June 26. Inoculation was 36,283 on June 28 followed by 42,475 on July 3 for a total of 1,24,597 in these three days for a daily average of 41,532. Now, the average will change to 47,414 after record vaccination of 63,485 on Wednesday.