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Second Covid-19 wave: Govt releases vaccines; not enough, says Maharashtra

One of the largest government-run vaccination sites in Mumbai on the Bandra Kurla Complex grounds has only 350 vaccine doses left

Coronavirus, Mumbai, Maharashtra
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A health worker collects nasal sample from a passenger for Covid-19 test in Mumbai | Photo: PTI

Sohini DasAneesh Phadnis Mumbai
Maharashtra on Thursday mounted a scathing attack on the Centre for its ‘discriminatory’ approach in allocating vaccines to the state. The state government estimates that its stock of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines will be exhausted in two days.
 
Maharashtra has 900,000 doses in stock. At the current pace of vaccination, it will last just two days, claimed the state’s Health Minister Rajesh Tope. He added that Maharashtra has been allotted 1.7 million doses of vaccines from the Centre. It requires 4 million doses per week. Of this, the state will get 750,000 doses now, the rest later.
 
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