Hyderabad: Even as the state is struggling with conducting Covid-19 tests, the drive to vaccinate people is also hitting some roadblocks, primarily because not enough stocks of the vaccines are available with the state health department.
With each passing day, according to officials, the state is making do with lesser vaccine stocks. For instance, on April 26, Telangana state administered 1,87,769 first, and 27,525 second doses of the vaccine to people. But on April 27, these numbers fell to 89,650 and 19,238 respectively.
Several vaccination centres are running short of supplies and we are having to ask people to come again, an official said.
While this is so, there was some confusion whether the fresh wave of administering Covid-19 shots to people in the age band of 18 and 44 years, will take off in the state as expected on May 1. Those who logged in to the portal, cowin.gov.in starting at 4 p.m., on Wednesday, were not provided actual vaccination slots but could…