Maharashtra requires at least a week's stock of Covid-19 vaccine at once to be able to plan the inoculation drive better, said state health minister Rajesh Tope."The Maharashtra government has several times urged the Centre to provide one week's stock (of vaccines) at a time to the state which would enable us to inoculate up to eight lakh people daily," the minister told reporters.
Tope said that due to Maharashtra being a huge state geographically, it takes at least two days to transport the vaccines to different parts. "Several letters have been sent to the Centre over it, but our demand has never been listened to.
The central government's supply of vaccines is much less than our requirement, hence our pace (of vaccination) is slow," he.