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With just two days to go before COVID-19 vaccination opens for the people above 18 years and only two days after Maharashtra administered the highest number of 5 lakh does in a day, reports of the shortage of the vaccines poured in from various parts of the state on Wednesday including Mumbai, officials said. In Mumbai, people stood in long queues outside the vaccination centres in scorching heat and humidity but were left disappointed.

Several people complained that at some of the 75 functional centres out of the total 135 in Mumbai, the vaccine stock got over within a couple of hours after the process began in the morning. The situation was no different in cities like Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Nashik and Nagpur where people stood up in long queues for hours for receiving the shots but left fuming and frustrated.

“Citizens need to book an appointment through the government portals for inoculation, but in some centres the vaccination was carried out on a walk-in basis also. However, with the rising number of cases in the last week, more people started rushing for vaccination, but they were affected by the short supply of the does being supplied by the two producers," a Mumbai civic body official said. A senior doctor said the Sassoon Hospital in Pune ran out of Covishield vials as the stock was not replenished in the last two days.

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