With the supply for coronavirus vaccinations running short, several districts have been forced to shut the vaccination process which includes Navi Mumbai, Satara and Panvel.
Earlier on Thursday, April 8, in an unfortunate development, the COVID-19 vaccination drive was paused in the Panvel area of Maharashtra, due to the unavailability of vaccines. According to the official notification issued by the Panvel Municipal Corporation, "Vaccination drive temporarily halted in all government and private inoculation centres in Panvel, due to unavailability of COVID-19 vaccines. Centres will be reopened once vaccines are back in stock."
On Wednesday, April 7, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar had warned that there is a possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine shortage in Mumbai. According to reports, Akola, Yavatmal, Buldhana, and Washim, all in the Amravati division along with Nagpur Rural and the city’s Government Medical College have enough stock to last only one more day. If not replenished immediately, the state is to stop vaccinations from Thursday, April 8.
However, Mumbai is supposed to receive the next stock of the COVID-19 vaccine after April 15. This delay can result in a couple of days in between where the vaccination process has to be halted.
Moreover, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope has stated that at present, the state has just 14 lakh vaccine doses which will get over in three days. "We've asked for 40 lakhs more vaccine doses per week. I'm not saying that the Centre is not giving us vaccines but the speed of delivery of vaccines is slow,” Meanwhile, with regards to vaccine wastage, he said Maharashtra has a vaccine wastage rate of 3 per cent which is half of the national average vaccine wastage rate of 6 per cent.
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