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West Bengal: Shortage of doses delayed launch of free Covid vaccination drive, says official

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West Bengal due to a paucity of jabs, said a health department official on Tuesday. "We have vaccine shortage here, the reason why we are not administrating the doses at that pace," Kanka Chakraborty, medical staff at the vaccination centre of Basanti Devi College in Kolkata told news agency ANI. "We will try to utilise all the vials that we have received today," she added.

Meanwhile, residents of the area suffered in long queues outside the vaccination centres. "I came at 10 am, but had to wait for long.

The stock was over and at about 12 pm they got more vaccines; the process is very slow, many were told to return," said Prerna Chowdhury, who got vaccinated at the centre.

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