Delhi's Covid-19 vaccine reserve exhausted, 100 vaccination sites forced to close: Dy CM Manish Sisodia

The Delhi government has been forced to shut down 100 vaccination sites over 17 schools that administered Bharat Biotechs Covaxin vaccine due to a dearth of supply from the manufacturer Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on WednesdayWhile addressing a press conference here Sisodia informed that the reserve stock of the vaccine in Delhi has been exhausted We had demanded 134 crore doses 67 lakhs each of Covaxin and Covishield Covaxin Bharat Biotech wrote to us yesterday that they cannot provide itThey wrote were making dispatches as per directives of concerned governmet officials Obvious that these are central government officials he said Our reserve stock of vaccine is exhausted The centres administering Covishield vaccines are functioning but we have had to close the centres administering CovaxinSo we have had to close down more than 100 centres across 17 schools Sisodia added The Aam Aadmi Party leader also hit out at the Centre saying that it should act as the government of a country and carry out its responsibility and stop all exportsAlso ReadDelhi will float global tender for Covid19 vaccine Manish SisodiaIn a later tweet Sisodia shared the letter from the vaccine manufacturing firm saying they are making dispatches as per the directives of concerned government officials and would not be able to provide additional supplies required by the Delhi governmentVaccine mismanagement by Centre Gov Covaxin refuses to supply vaccine citing directives of Gov amp limited availability Once again I would say exporting 66 cr doses was biggest mistake We are forced to shut down 100 Covaxinvaccination sites in 17 schools due to no supply the Aam Aadmi Party leader tweeted along with the letter The letter signed by Chairman and Managing Director Dr Krishna Ella also mentioned that there had been an unprecedented demand for Covaxin for vaccination programmes and in spite of increasing production every month they were unable to keep up with the demandEarlier on Tuesday Sisodia had also mentioned that the Delhi Government had ordered 134 crore doses of COVID vaccines in May but the Centre cleared only 35 lakh doses against it Delhis Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting other capable companies to manufacture the two Covid19 vaccines Covaxin and Covishield being already produced in India and said the Union government should do away with vaccine production monopoly using the patent lawWith just over 12000 fresh cases on Tuesday the national capital seems to be slowly recovering from the devastating fourth wave it witnessed over the last few weeks where daily new cases went as high as 28000 Health minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday informed that over the last few days the COVID19 positivity rate in the national capital has declined from 36 per cent to 19 per cent Till we reach positivity rate at below 5 per cent and caseload below 30004000 cases we cant be at ease Jain said As per the Union health ministry there are currently 83809 active COVID19 cases in the city A total of 1244880 recoveries and 20010 deaths have been reported so farThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever