It’s Centre Vs state in Raj over Covid vaccine supply

By Archana Sharma Jaipur, March 10 : The Rajasthan and Central governments seem to be engaged in a new tussle regarding the supply and availability of the Covid-19 vaccines in the state.
State Health Minister Raghu Sharma, on Tuesday morning, delivered a shock to everybody by claiming that the availability of vaccination doses is limited in the state and that may last only for a day or two.
He also urged the Centre to supply the fresh consignment of doses expressing fear that the work may be stopped otherwise.
However, a few hours later, the Centre stepped in with the clarification that it had supplied 37.71 lakh doses to Rajasthan and out of which only 24.28 lakh doses have been used till Monday.
“There have been some news reports suggesting impending shortage of Covid-19 vaccine doses in Rajasthan. The factual position is that there is no shortage of Covid-19 vaccine with the state at present. Rajasthan has been supplied 37.61 lakh doses and has consumed only 24.28 lakh doses till Monday night. The Central government is regularly monitoring availability of vaccine supply in all the states and UTs, and providing the doses as per their requirement and consumption pattern,” said an official from the central government.
Interestingly, at 7.30 p.m., the state medical department said: “A total of 31.45 lakh doses have been received from the Centre. Out of these, 23.26 lakh were used while 1.62 lakh medicines have been damaged. A total of 2.15 lakh doses have been given to the Army and now there are only 4.4 lakh doses of medicines left in the stock.”