Covid-19 vaccination sites drop to half in India amid shortage of doses

Number of locations down from 120,000 to 60,000 from April 3 to 7

Mumbai municipality vehicles were en route to the Pune facility of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, on Friday afternoon. An official said the cargo they pick up could beat the shortage of doses threatening to scuttle the Covid vaccination process in the country’s financial capital.

“We are expecting as many as 188,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Our vehicles have been sent to Pune to pick them up,” Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), told Business Standard. Vaccinations in Mumbai will happen on Saturday if the BMC gets these doses, he said.

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