AHMEDABAD: Gujarat in the 24 hours ending at 5pm on Monday recorded vaccination of 2.99 lakh persons including 2 lakh for the first dose and 99,671 for the second. It was the second instance in the past seven days where the total vaccination touched 3 lakh doses. For Ahmedabad, the total doses were 34,989 – the second highest in past 10 days.
Along with Covishield and Covaxin, two private hospitals in Gujarat – one each in Ahmedabad and Surat – started administering Sputnik V vaccines. The two-dose vaccine costs about Rs 1,145 for one dose and the two shots are administered at the interval of 21 days.
In Ahmedabad, Krishna Shalby hospital started vaccination of Sputnik V for the general public from Monday. The hospital has so far received 600 doses as the senior officials said that in all the hospital would get about 40,000 doses for Gujarat. “In next few days, we would start vaccination of Sputnik at four more hospitals (SG Road, Vijay crossroads, Naroda and Bopal) in Ahmedabad and one each in Surat and Vapi,” said a senior official of Shalby Hospitals.
