Coronavirus | Odisha raises vaccine shortage issue again

Seeks urgent supply of at least 10 days stock of Covishield

The Odisha government on Thursday raised the issue of vaccine shortage again saying there is nil stock of Covishield. Stating that Odisha was facing a crisis due to extremely low and intermittent supply of COVID-19 vaccines, Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kisore Das wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan that the State had received 50,79,650 doses till Wednesday. He said the balance stock of Covishield would last for only one day. “We are prepared to undertake three lakh vaccinations daily. However, Odisha is being allocated only about 2-3 lakh doses at a time.”