Private hospitals in no hurry to procure covid vaccines
«This is a milder version of Covid-19. Right now, we are not seeing any hospitalisation or severity of the disease, so would want to wait and watch and not do any procurement right away,» said a senior executive at a leading private hospital.
Many executives disclosed that their hospitals have not procured vaccines since 2021 as there is hardly any demand and they have exhausted their supplies.
They now await government guidelines and will act accordingly, one of the executives said.
«The hospitals have seen a drop in the number of vaccinations each month. This year has seen a drastic drop in demand as most people have already taken it,» the person said.
The uptake of vaccines had remained low when the country saw an increase in the number of cases in April, executives pointed out.
Active Covid-19 cases in India had touched 11,109 on April 14.
«But there was hardly any demand for vaccination that we saw in April and hence we are not expecting any drastic change now as well,» a second executive said.
India witnessed an increase of 628 new Covid-19 cases in a single day, contributing to a rise in the active caseload, which reached 4,054, as per the data provided by the Union health ministry.
So far, 63 cases of JN.1 Covid variant have been reported in the country. Of these, 34 cases have been from Goa, nine from Maharashtra, eight from Karnataka, four from Kerala, four from Tamil Nadu, and two from Telangana.
While cases of newly detected subvariant are surging, XBB continues to be dominant in India.
