Not enough Covishield, over 300 jab sites in Pune stay shut

PUNE: District authorities said on Tuesday that more than 300 Covid vaccination sites have been shut for most days in August due to severe shortages of the Covishield vaccine. It's the civic-run sites that have been mainly affected as private hospitals still have good reserves of the shot, the officials added.
A fresh batch of doses is now expected to arrive by Wednesday evening.

Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director (medical), Pune circle, said, “Supply has been low during the first 10 days of August. But we covered nearly 2.6 lakh people."
When asked about the more than 10 lakh beneficiaries who are due for the second jab of Covishield, Deshmukh said the district is expecting a large allocation from the state government.
The district, in August so far, has received only about 92,000 doses of Covishield and 46,000 doses of Covaxin.