Pune Cantonment restarts five vaccination centres

PUNE: The Pune Cantonment Board recently restarted five peripheral vaccination centres at Wanowrie Bazaar, Ghorpadi, MG Road, Bootee Street and Gaffar Baig Street to expedite the second dose vaccination within its limits.
Amit Kumar, the PCB’s CEO, said they had completed the first dose vaccination and their current focus was on administering the second dose. “Earlier, we could not run all the centres effectively due to the shortage of vaccine doses. Now, we are getting enough doses from the district administration, which is why we were able to reopen the vaccination centres,” Kumar said.
Cantonment officials said they had vaccinated 67,661 people, which included 27,983 first-dose vaccinations, so far. Dr Nikhil Yadav, in-charge of the vaccination in the Cantonment, said that there was a lukewarm response for the inoculation in the last month. “In the last two weeks, we have received a positive response for the vaccination. People from the PMC limits are also coming in a large number. So, we had to restart vaccination at our peripheral booths at least twice a week at each location,” Yadav added.