Maharashtra requests extra COVID-19 vaccines as state is going through scarcity

Amidst the spiralling coronavirus outbreak in Maharashtra, the state well being minister Rajesh Tope at the moment claimed that the state is going through acute shortages of the coronavirus vaccine, including that the state now has simply 14 lakh doses which might final for less than three days. The Maharashtra minister has requested the Centre to offer Maharashtra with an extra 40 lakh extra doses of COVID-19 vaccines per week to battle the contagion.
“We do not have enough vaccine doses at various vaccination centres, and people have to be sent back due to a shortage of doses. We have demanded from the Centre that people of age group 20-40 years must be vaccinated on priority,” Rajesh Tope advised media.
We are engaged on battle footing to extend the variety of beds in Pune, Mumbai, Nashik and different components of the State: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope— ANI (@ANI) April 7, 2021
“Currently, we have 14 lakh vaccine doses which will get over in 3 days. We’ve asked for 40 lakh 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,” he stated.
The Maharashtra well being minister stated that folks within the age group of 20-40 are most contaminated as a result of they exit day-after-day. Suggesting that COVID-19 vaccines needs to be made eligible for all aged 18 and above, Tope stated that is how the unfold of the an infection could be managed.
Speaking on the consumption of oxygen of Covid-19 sufferers within the state, Rajesh Tope stated Maharashtra is consuming 700 mg/L (milligrams per liter) of oxygen every day whereas producing 1200 mg/L (milligrams per liter) every day.
Tope stated he has requested the Centre to direct the neighbouring states to offer oxygen provide to Maharashtra.
When requested in regards to the Maharashtra authorities’s technique in tackling the resurgent coronavirus outbreak, Tope stated the variety of hospital beds for Covid-19 sufferers is being elevated in Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur and Nasik.
Shiv Sena MP writes letter to Dr Harsh Vardhan, asking for extra doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Maharashtra
Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has additionally written a letter to the Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, asking him to make the vaccine accessible to all above 18 years and in addition to offer satisfactory vaccines to Maharashtra because it faces an acute scarcity.
In my letter to Hon. Health Min, I’ve requested him to make vaccine accessible to all above 18 years &Maharashtra be supplied satisfactory vaccines because it faces acute scarcity. This is the NEED of the HOUR not a mere WANT. pic.twitter.com/EGlRaVOYL7— Priyanka Chaturvedi (@priyankac19) April 7, 2021
In her letter, Ms Chaturvedi has said that Maharashtra is on the verge of operating out on the vaccine doses, including that some districts have shares that will final just for 48 hours. The Shiv Sena MP urged the central authorities to launch extra vaccines to Maharashtra to fight the coronavirus successfully.