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Ghaziabad has set a modest daily target of vaccinating 3,100 people and Noida (Gautam Budh Nagar) just 2,800.
NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: UP’s NCR districts will start vaccinating people in the 18-44 age bracket from Monday, 10 days after the national rollout of inoculations for this this large population group, but with a local address rider and a very conservative daily target – less than 6,000, Noida and Ghaziabad taken together.
The vaccinations have been ringfenced for only UP residents at all government session sites, which they have been asked to ascertain by the National Health Mission (UP) from address proof documents like Aadhaar card, passport, driving licence, ration card and voter card. The central government puts no such regional restriction on vaccinations and neither does the Co-WIN portal that is mandatory for registrations and lets people select slots on the basis of pin codes.
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GHAZIABAD/NOIDA: With several people being turned away by hospitals, citing unavailability of vaccines, Ghaziabad’s stocks remained tight despite a fresh batch of vaccines being delivered on Wednesday. The city heads into Thursday, which is a scheduled ‘big vaccination’ day, with only around 12,000 doses and will either need another batch by Friday morning or will have to ration doses if it is to continue inoculations on Friday. On Thursday, the city received only 6,500 vaccine doses from the regional centre in Meerut.
Noida (Gautam Budh Nagar), which had just 13,000 doses of Covishield after Tuesday’s vaccinations, received a replenishment of just 5,500 doses on Wednesday. It will have at its disposal only around 12,400 doses of Covishield for Thursday morning, after accounting for Wednesday’s vaccinations. It also has around 12,500 doses of Covaxin but the Bharat Biotech vaccine is administered only at four centres.
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LUCKNOW: A number of people are being turned away by hospitals, especially the private ones, citing unavailability of vaccines in Ghaziabad and Noida with many vaccination centres at private hospitals the notices pasted saying the vaccine was out of stock.
As per the sources, Ghaziabad headed into Thursday’s vaccination drive with just 12,000 doses with a target of 10,000 inoculations. The city has around 100 vaccination centres, including 36 private ones.
NK Gupta, Ghaziabad’s chief medical officer told reporters that on Wednesday 12,000 doses were available against 5,848 people. On Thursday, the authorities were left with 6,152 doses. “Late on Wednesday, we received 6,500 doses from the Meerut regional centre. So for Thursday, we had 12,000 doses,” said NK Gupta. “By Thursday evening or by Friday, we are hopeful that a fresh batch of vaccines will reach us,” he added.