Bengal govt seeks 5.75 L COVID-19 vaccine doses from Centre

Kolkata, April 3 In wake of fresh spike in COVID-19 cases throughout the country, West Bengal health department has sought supply of 5.75 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the Centre.

Of the 5.75 lakh doses, five lakh are for Covishield and the remaining 75,000 for Covaxin.

A senior official of the state health department said that the fresh request for COVID-19 vaccines to the Union government has been made in wake of apprehension that there might be fresh demands for booster doses in the state amid the recent spike in active cases.

"As it is there was a reluctance among the people to go for booster dozes. The reluctance was aggravated further because of the dip in the number of active cases in the recent past. So, the state health department had to send back a huge stock of doses to the Union government before their expiry. Currently, the stock of doses is limited and is not enough to meet the requirement in case demand for booster dozes amid fresh spike in fresh case. Hence, the state government has given fresh requisition of 5.75 lakh doses," he said.

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