Maharashtra is working below capacity and needs at least three crore vaccine doses per month to inoculate the entire population at the earliest, state health minister Rajesh Tope has said. "We are working below our capacity.
It is literally hand-to-mouth (situation)," Tope was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. He was speaking about the paucity of doses in Maharashtra.
The health minister informed that the state has the capacity to vaccinate 15 lakh people daily, but as of now, only two to three lakh people are being inoculated in a day due to a "shortage of vaccine doses". "Three days ago, we got seven lakh vaccine doses.