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Private hospitals are not yet keen on procuring Covid-19 vaccines and awaiting clarity from the government on vaccination even as a surge in Covid-19 cases has sparked concerns..
Senior executives of top private hospitals said they have no stocks of Covid vaccines and are not planning to procure them as of now as the rise in cases is caused by a mild variant of the virus...
"This is a milder version of Covid-19..
The uptake of vaccines had remained low when the country saw an increase in the number of cases in April, executives pointed out...
"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..
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