Kerala is facing an acute shortage of vaccine since May month when it was experienced that it was not in a position to provide shots to people in the 18-45 age group now. The repeated requests to the Union government for more doses failed to yield any result.

On Tuesday, July 27, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Kerala is one of the states which had implemented vaccination drive in the most effective manner but admitted that it was facing challenges in fighting the pandemic. The Chief Minister also lashed out at Union Health Minister Mansuk Mandaviye, who had recently said that 10 lakh doses of vaccine, supplied to the southern state, had been left unused.

The present circumstance is that we are facing acute shortage of the jab. That is the truth,'' Vijayan told the state Assembly. Claiming that Kerala had made no lapse in the immunization drive, Vijayan said the present situation was that the available vaccine stock was not enough to meet its demands. The CM also said the state would approach the Centre demanding more doses of vaccine.

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