Amid shortage of supply from the Centre, the claims that it is not being able to use the Infrastructure it has established to administer Covid vaccine to people in the state.
The Health department is equipped to give three lakh doses per day, but is able to administer just 65,000 doses currently. Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said the state was equipped with infrastructure to vaccinate three lakh persons every day, but the Centre had failed to supply the required doses due to which the states vaccination drive was moving at a slow pace.
Till mid-April, the state was administering between 6 and 7 lakh doses on an Average. So far, the state has given 48.12 lakh doses to various groups, including healthcare workers, frontline workers and people above 18 years.