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Vaccination centre at Erode GH closed
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Since COVID-19 patients were treated at the District Headquarters Hospital in Erode, the vaccination centre was closed on Friday. | Photo Credit:
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The vaccination centre functioning at the District Headquarters Hospital here was closed and people were asked to get vaccinated at the 10 Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHCs) functioning in the Corporation limits.
The vaccination drive for health workers began at the centre on January 16 after which other frontline workers were vaccinated. Also, people above 60 and 45 years were vaccinated at the centre for the past three-four months.
With a spike in COVID-19 cases, 150 beds were converted to treat positive patients in the last one month. Since persons coming to vaccinate had to wait in long queue where the COVID-19 block was located, the district administration closed the centre.
BBMP was counting on delivery of fresh stock on Wednesday evening
A day after Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa assured citizens that they there was no reason to panic or fear about a shortage of supply, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta admitted on Wednesday that the civic body had only 40,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in stock, which would be exhausted by the end of the day.
Speaking to reporters after inspecting the central vaccine storage facility at Dasappa Hospital, Mr. Gupta said that though there was ample storage facility, both at Dasappa Hospital and the various Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHCs), there was not enough stock available with the civic body. “The 40,000 doses that we currently have will be distributed to the various UPHCs. We are likely to receive vaccines [for Thursday] later in the evening. This ‘just in time’ supply of vaccines is being made by the State government,” he said.