No Covaxin for 18-44 in Delhi: Deputy CM

People in the 18-44 age group won't be able to get Covaxin shots in Delhi from Thursday as Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that its manufacturer Bharat Biotech has refused to provide "additional" vaccine doses to the city gover nment.

Stocks of the other coronavirus vaccine --- Covishield, will last only nine days, AAP MLA Atishi Marlena said while releasing a vaccination bulletin of the city.

As Covaxin's stock finished, the Delhi gover nment temporarily closed down around 100 centres administering the vaccine on Wednesday.

Addressing an online press briefing on Wednesday, Sisodia said, "The Covaxin manufacturer has in a letter said that it cannot provide the Delhi gover nment vaccines due to unavailability, under instruction of gover nment of ficials concer ned. It means that the central gover nment is controlling supply of the vaccine."

Sisodia accused the Centre of vaccine mismanagement and reiterated that exporting 6.5 crore doses to foreign countries was the "biggest mistake".

HC pulls up Delhi govt

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Delhi gover nment for not yet fully operationalising its 1,241 bedded Indira Gandhi Hospital, which presently has only 80 beds available that too for nonserious COVID patients, saying the state should lear n from the "bitter experience" of the people during the present onslaught of the second wave of the pandemic.

ITBP-run centre deploy s stress counsellors

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)-run COVID care centre in south Delhi is now providing "uninterrupted" medical oxygen to patients, while a team of at least 30 stress counsellors has been deployed to soothe the frayed nerves of the inmates and their attendants, officials said on Wednesday.