Coronavirus: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan said the state needs at least 50 lakh vaccine doses
Thiruvananthapuram:
Kerala s COVID-19 vaccine stock will last only three more days and the state needs at least 50 lakh doses, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said in a letter to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.
The letter by the Kerala Chief Minister comes amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country. Reports of hospitals in other states asking for more vaccine doses are becoming common as the lines of waiting people grow longer. Kerala is witnessing a rise in the number of Covid cases at present, Mr Vijayan wrote in the letter. The stock (of vaccine) which is left with us is sufficient for conducting vaccination for the next three days only. This shortage of vaccine has been brought to the notice of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. We are yet to get any additional supply of Covid vaccine, the Chief Minister wrote.