bengaluru notwithstanding the state target of administering at least 5 lakh doses a day the government has managed to jab only around 27 lakh per day in the first 15 days of october compared to 51 lakh between september 15 and 30between october 1 and 15 the state administered a total of over 411 lakh doses which is only half of the over 819 lakh doses administered between september 15 and 30 of those administered so far in october more than 267 lakh were second doses while over 143 lakh were firstofficials in the health and family welfare department while reiterating that there is no problem on the supply side pointed to the huge gap between doses of covishield the challenges of identifying those eligible for second dose and hesitancy attributed to the festive season as reasons for the drop in daily vaccinationsince nearly nine of 10 vaccine doses administered in the state are covishield officials said reduction of gap between doses could expedite second dose coverage across districts given that 80 of the eligible population has been covered with one dose weve completed the easy part of the programme the last leg of vaccination is more challenging as we need to identify people deal with hesitancy and other issues we are adopting multiple approaches and are confident of being successful a senior department official saidmk sudharshan chairperson state covid19 technical advisory committee tac while pointing out that the panel has already recommended that the gap between doses be reduced said that is something the centre has to decide from our side we think that the gap was fine initially as we needed to cover as many people as possible with the first dose but now that weve achieved that the focus must shift to the second dose90 lakh yet to get first doseas of 4pm on saturday october 16 the government had administered more than 6 crore doses of vaccine more than 53 crore 88 were covishield and over 707 lakh 116 covaxin around 50 of the said doses have been given to men while more than 3 crore or 496 to womenof the eligible population of more than 49 crore the state has managed to administer at least one dose to more than 407 crore or 818 over 2 crore or 402 of the eligible population has been fully inoculatedthis means that more than 902 lakh people among the eligible population are yet to get even the first dose while over 207 crore people whove got the first dose still need to get the second jab but not all of them qualify for it immediately given the gapas on date around 30 lakh people are eligible for the second dose however we found that many of them have not turned up for vaccination which could be because of the festive season we are hopeful that daily vaccination improves in the second half of the month dr arundathi chandrashekhar md national health mission karnataka told stoishe added the