Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan seeking 50 lakh coronavirus vaccine doses as ...
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan seeking 50 lakh coronavirus vaccine doses as the stocks in the state are likely to last only three more days. Vijayan’s request came amid similar pleas from several states that continue to face shortages amid a massive surge in infections.
“Wrote to the Honourable Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhanji requesting immediate allocation of 50 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Kerala so that our vaccination programme proceeds uninterrupted, and we continue to successfully control the pandemic,” Vijayan said in a tweet.
Wrote to the Honourable Minister for Health and Family Welfare @drharshvardhan ji requesting immediate allocation of 50L doses of #COVID19 vaccines to Kerala so that our vaccination programme proceeds uninterrupted, and we continue to successfully control the pandemic.
— Pinarayi Vijayan (@vijayanpinarayi) April 12, 2021
In his letter, the Kerala chief minister said the state was also witnessing a rise in the number of Covid cases. “So far, the state has received 56,84,360 doses of Covid-19 vaccine, including 54,40,740 of Covishield and 2,43,620 of Covaxin and we have administered 48,24,505 doses till April 11,” Vijayan said, according to Mathrubhumi. “We are yet to get any additional supply of Covid vaccine.”
Vijayan added that Kerala has been administering 2 lakh...
