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Vaccination centres close in India's worst affected state as supplies run out

Telegraph, 09 Apr 2021
India may be forced to scale back its Covid-19 immunisation programme despite calls for its expansion amid a virulent "second wave" of the virus, after ten states revealed they had fewer than four days of vaccine stocks left.

In the eastern state of Odisha, shortages have already resulted in the authorities closing nearly half of the immunisation sites, while facilities have also been shut in the western state of Maharashtra, home to India’s financial capital of Mumbai.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/vaccine-shortages-hit-india-covid-second-wave-gathers-pace/

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