Odisha government has decided to temporarily suspend the inoculation drive in over 1,000 centres. According to family welfare director Bijay Panigrahi, the existing stock with the state will get exhausted in two days.
Panigrahi said that the vaccination drive could not be taken up on Saturday in rural Odisha due to a scarcity of Covishield vaccine doses.
The state is administering Covaxin in Bhubaneswar, while it is giving Covishield in the rest of the state.Vaccination in all session sites in Koraput, Nuapada and Jharsuguda, as well as the urban areas of Sundargarh, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Balangir, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur and Malkangiri has been stopped due to the non-availability of doses, he said.These ten districts, which share borders with.