After two-day disruption, vax drive resumes across J’khand

Ranchi: The vaccination drive picked up pace on Wednesday after a two-day disruption across the state as over two lakh doses of Covishield arrived on Tuesday evening.
However, another consignment of more than 31,000 Covaxin doses that was scheduled to be delivered to the state on Wednesday was delayed due to Bakrid holiday and is now expected to arrive on Thursday.
According to officials of the state health department, the vaccination drive which had been limited to a few hundred doses in different parts of state for the last two days will be conducted smoothly for the remaining period of this month as the state is set to receive fresh consignment after every two to three days.
Talking to TOI, the nodal officer for vaccination in the state, Dr Ajit Prasad, said: “The vaccination drive will not be disrupted in the state till the end of the month as we will get enough stocks regularly till August 4. We had a total of around 1.74 lakh doses on Wednesday morning and around 88,000 people have been vaccinated today. We will continue to vaccinate more beneficiaries in the same manner on Thursday too.”
When asked how the state will manage if beneficiaries in large numbers get vaccinated on a daily basis, Dr Prasad said: “We will have around 86,000 doses left with us on Wednesday evening and we are also receiving over 31,000 doses of Covaxin on Thursday itself. The Covaxin consignment wasn’t delivered to us on Wednesday due to some operational difficulties.”
Meanwhile, the state is set to receive a total of 11,84,000 vaccine doses in the next 14 days.