Suryakant Devkar

Free Corbevax shots will also be offered to eligible students (12-14 age group) studying in private schools, besides government or civic-run institutes, during the vaccination drive, state immunisation officer Dr Sachin Desai said on Monday.

State immunisation officer Dr Sachin Desai on Sunday said Covid vaccine shortages that were reported recently in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad were the result of 'distribution errors' and not supply shortages. currently has enough doses, he confirmed.

The Union government has introduced a separate category for foreign nationals on the centralized CoWin portal to facilitate their immunization. Earlier this month, the government had allowed the foreign nationals residing in India and those with the first dose vaccinated outside the country to register on the CoWin portal using their passport as an identity document for registration and get inoculated against Covid-19.

Around 86,000 children from the 12-14 age group have received the first dose of the Corbevax vaccine so far in the state, CoWIN data showed on Sunday. The Corbevax drive started five days ago, on Wednesday, March 16.

A 73-year-old man suffering from chronic lung disease and heart ailment is among the two suspected H3N2 casualties in Pune so far, officials said on Thursday. Dr Rajendra Wabale, dean of Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital, said the patient died on Thursday.

The PMC, between November 7 and November 22, vaccinated 644 children out of the estimated 1,023 who are believed to have missed the measles jab, officials said this week. Outbreaks of measles have prompted urgent vaccine drives across the state, an attempt to cover children who missed the jab due to Covid’s impact on the routine immunisation programme.

Incessant rainfall over the past few days has had a substantial impact on Covid vaccine coverage in the state.On Wednesday, the state saw just 42,000 people turning up for the shots at vaccination centres; on Tuesday, the number was 53,000.

Daily Covid-19 vaccination is up statewide, but vaccine centres in Pune district continue to record low turnouts.The lack of improvement is worrying. The district on Thursday recorded 217 cases — a 16% increase over Wednesday’s already high 187.

The Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad civic bodies are staring at Covishield vaccine shortage, following a surge in immunization from July 15, when the precaution doses were made free for all adults.

Around 50 lakh adults from the district would be due for the precaution dose on July 15, when the Union government’s free third shot drive would start. A report from the state public health services stated that around 37.5 lakh from the 18-44 age group and 12.

A total of 1,137 more children received the first dose of Corbevax vaccine in Pune district on Thursday, the second day of the vaccination drive for the 12-14 age group that kicked off across the country on Wednesday when 963 children had turned up to take the shot in the district.

pune there are 592 lakh children in the 1214 age bracket in pune district but only 33 of them have taken the first dose of the corbevax vaccine which was released for the group on march 16 this year second dose uptake is just 17 data has revealed“of these 592 lakh eligible kids 197 lakh have taken the corbevax first dose and from these firstdose vaccinated 106 lakh have sought the second dose making them fully immunised.

The Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial (YCM) Hospital dean, Rajendra Wabale, on Friday expressed his inability to start a measles isolation ward at the health facility due to space issues.

Booster drives with the Covishield vaccine have resumed in the state after fresh stock, of nearly 3.5 lakh doses, arrived this week.

Even as the state battles a measles outbreak among children, the city administration is awaiting confirmation on more than 120 samples sent to Haffkine institute in Mumbai over the past three months.

Covid vaccinations for children in the 12-14 age group came to a sudden halt on Wednesday after centres across Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad reported zero stock of the Corbevax jab.Pune rural seemed unaffected though.

More than 50 percent of the eligible children in the 15- 17 age group in the district are now double vaccinated.

The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) could not hold Covid vaccination drives for the third day on Monday, due to vaccine shortage.

There would be no change in the number of Covid-19 vaccination sites in the Pune civic limits despite the sharp fall in daily vaccination.“We shall not close down any vaccination sites. Till now, only Covaxin availability has posed problems to us.

The state immunisation office is hoping to reduce the Corbevax wastage by conducting special camps once the academic session starts next week.

The Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations have increased surveillance and fumigation activities in their limits in view of the rapid rise in the mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya.

Vaccination centres across the Pune Metropolitan Region have now been given fresh stock of Covishield, just days after reports emerged of widespread shortage of the shot.

Staff from civic hospitals in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad will hold Covid vaccination camps in schools this week for students in the 12-17 age group, officials said on Sunday.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday informed the central government that over 900 functional oxygen beds are available across the city in private and civic hospitals.

The Indian Association of Paediatrics on Sunday will hold a meeting with the officials of the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations, as well as the World Health Organization, for better reporting and vaccination among children to prevent the spread of measles infection.

A total of 1.24 lakh Covishield doses at 22 private vaccination centres/hospitals in Pune municipal limits were facing expiry within the next 38 days, the latest report of the PMC revealed on Monday