Many who had not registered turned up
S. Murugan, 33, a resident of Srirampura in the city, turned up for the vaccination at the State-run K.C. General Hospital in the city on Monday morning hoping he would get a dose. Unaware that the inoculation for his age group was only for those who had registered and scheduled an appointment on the CoWIN portal, he returned disappointed.
“I did not know that I had to register before coming here. My parents and neighbours had got vaccinated without any prior registration. The government should have allowed a similar system in our age group too,” he said.
People wait outside a vaccination centre in Bengaluru on Friday. Shortage of doses is affecting the drive
BENGALURU: With not enough vaccines for all eligible age groups, the Karnataka government has asked public vaccination centres to use the current stocks to inoculate only those due for the second jab. Essentially, the full vaccination of healthcare and frontline workers and citizens aged above 45, who have taken the first dose, is being prioritised.
A circular in this regard was sent to officials on May 7 and displayed at all government-run health centres on Saturday. The directive implies that the 45-plus who have not taken the first dose may not get slots.
People wait outside a vaccination centre in Bengaluru on Friday. Shortage of doses is affecting the drive
BENGALURU: With not enough vaccines for all eligible age groups, the Karnataka government has asked public vaccination centres to use the current stocks to inoculate only those due for the second jab. Essentially, the full vaccination of healthcare and frontline workers and citizens aged above 45, who have taken the first dose, is being prioritised.
A circular in this regard was sent to officials on May 7 and displayed at all government-run health centres on Saturday. The directive implies that the 45-plus who have not taken the first dose may not get slots.
People wait outside a vaccination centre in Bengaluru on Friday. Shortage of doses is affecting the drive
BENGALURU: With not enough vaccines for all eligible age groups, the Karnataka government has asked public vaccination centres to use the current stocks to inoculate only those due for the second jab. Essentially, the full vaccination of healthcare and frontline workers and citizens aged above 45, who have taken the first dose, is being prioritised.
A circular in this regard was sent to officials on May 7 and displayed at all government-run health centres on Saturday. The directive implies that the 45-plus who have not taken the first dose may not get slots.
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BENGALURU: The Karnataka government’s daily Covid-19 bulletin continues to underreport infections to the tune of tens of thousands of cases, a quick glance of data reveals. As of Wednesday, while the state’s cumulative infections was 14,39,822 according to the official data, patient numbers allotted that day had crossed 14.6 lakh.
Typically, the day’s bulletin collates and updates data on infections, deaths and discharges occurring the previous day: Wednesday’s numbers, for instance, pertain to the data collected till Tuesday-Wednesday midnight.
Even accounting for this lag, random cases that TOI could track revealed that nearly 25,000 infected people are yet to be accounted in Karnataka’s tally. Sources in National Health Mission (NHM), which prepares the daily bulletins, confirmed that “P numbers” or patient numbers reflect the state’s total number of infected and the the daily data could be lagging behind the actual number by thousands.