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Punjab demands 40 lakh more Covid vaccine doses from Centre
Citing the current demand of more than 2 lakh Covid vaccine doses for the second jab alone, Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked the Centre to provide 40 lakh more doses to inoculate the state’s eligible population
Citing the current demand of more than 2 lakh Covid vaccine doses for the second jab alone, Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked the Centre to provide 40 lakh more doses to inoculate the state’s eligible population.
Amarinder said the state was expecting 2.46 lakh doses to arrive on Tuesday but noted that vaccines remain in short supply as it has run out of Covishield and was left with a mere 3,500 Covaxin doses as of Monday.
Punjab has already vaccinated more than 90 lakh people (nearly 37% of eligible population) and has been utilising the stock without any wastage, said the CM. While the first dose has been administered to 75 lakh people, 15 lakh had got the second dose too.
The Centre needs to arrange for delivery to the state to meet the shortfall and enable inoculation of the second dose, while continuing with the vaccination, said the CM.
Disability schemes’ benefit to mucormycosis patients
Reviewing the state’s Covid situation through a virtual conference, the CM announced extension of benefits of existing schemes for persons with disability to those suffering from disability caused by mucormycosis.
The benefits will be extended as per the nature and degree of the disability, he said.
The CM directed the medical education department to establish post-Covid care centres in government medical colleges and hospitals for free follow-up of the cured cases of mucormycosis.
