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Highlights The remaining 133 sites will (also) be shut on Saturday, which means the inoculation drive for this age group will have to be stopped temporarily from Monday, Atishi said.
The vaccination drive is not carried out in Delhi on Sundays.
Atishi said only 42,380 doses were left for the 18-44 category as on Friday morning.
New Delhi: The Delhi government will have to temporarily stop the inoculation drive for the 18-44 age group from Monday, as it has almost run out of vaccines for this age group, AAP MLA Atishi said on Friday.
She said that in the last one week, Delhi has already shut 235 of the 368 inoculation centres for this category due to a shortage of vaccines.
A medical worker inoculates a beneficiary with a Covid-19 vaccine at GB Pant Hospital in New Delhi.
NEW DELHI: On the third day of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Delhi on Tuesday, 48.7%, or 4,936 of 10,125 healthcare workers scheduled to be injected, turned up at the city’s 81 centres. Though the percentage was lower than the record on the first day last Saturday, the total number of recipients on Tuesday was the highest till now. As in the previous rounds, the slots of the absentees were filled by individuals who volunteered to receive the jab.
The number of adverse events was lower at 16 cases on Tuesday than in the earlier two rounds. According to a government report, one recipient of Covaxin among the 224 at six centres complained of minor adverse reactions, while 15 of the 4,712 people who were administered Covishield at 75 centres did the same.
CoWIN glitches, cautious approach behind 53% vaccination turnout in Delhi
People adopting a wait and watch approach, lack of communication and glitches in CoWin app are the major reasons why only 53 per cent people got the COVID-19 shots on the first day in Delhi, experts said on Sunday
PTI | January 17, 2021 | Updated 19:13 IST
People adopting a wait and watch approach, lack of communication and glitches in CoWin app are the major reasons why only 53 per cent people got the COVID-19 shots on the first day in Delhi, experts said on Sunday.
In Delhi, 4,319 healthcare workers 53.3 per cent of those registered got the shots on Saturday, the first day of the world s largest vaccination drive against the pandemic.