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Several private hospitals have finalised deals for Covid vaccines - Covishield, Covaxin and Russian-made Sputnik V - and the consignments are expected to start coming from next week, officials of the healthcare units said on Tuesday. Only a handful of private hospitals are now administering Covid vaccines. Tens of thousands of vaccine recipients are waiting for other healthcare units to receive supplies and resume the vaccination drive. The drive has remained suspended at most private vaccination centres since May 1 because of lack of supplies. The private centres now have to directly procure doses from the manufacturers. Most hospitals were communicating with the manufacturers Serum Institute of India for Covishield and Bharat Biotech for Covaxin for over a month, but the companies were not promising supplies. ....
St Xavier’s College, Calcutta, will conduct a Covid-19 vaccination camp in collaboration with the state government on its Park Street campus. It will also set up a safe home for Covid patients on its Raghabpur campus in South 24-Parganas. Senior officers of the district administration and state health department have already done a preliminary inspection at Raghabpur. On the Park Street campus, the vaccination will start with the college staff, teaching and non-teaching staff, alumni and then include others when the capacity increases, a college official said. The date and the eligibility criterion will be fixed based on the allotment of the vaccines and the number of doses, he added. ....