NASHIK: The Nashik division, comprising Nashik, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nandurbar and Ahmednagar districts, received 81,520 doses of Covid vaccines on Wednesday night. Of them, 58,000 are Covishield and 23,520 are Covaxin doses.
P B Gandal, the deputy director of health for the Nashik division, said given the massive scale of vaccination programme in Nashik district and the large number of people due for their second shots, a significant share of the vaccines has been allotted to Nashik district — 24,000 Covishield and 6,400 Covaxin doses.
There are adequate vaccination centres across the division and on several occasions, between 40,000 and 50,000 doses were administered per day. The division has been getting the stock of vaccines as and when available. However, the stock arrives every few days to ensure that people do not have to wait long for the vaccines.
The office of the deputy director of health, Nashik division, sends the vaccine van to the state office in Pune to collect the vaccines. On the way to Nashik, the quota of vaccines for Ahmednagar is delivered and the remaining stock is brought to Nashik. After keeping Nashik district’s share, the vaccine quotas for Dhule, Jalgaon and Nandurbar districts are sent out.
Due to greater awareness and the impending third wave of the pandemic, a large number of beneficiaries have been thronging the vaccination sites everywhere in the Nashik division as well as the neighbouring districts.
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