ahmedabad vadodara daily vaccinations in the city never exceeded 300 till a week ago but with covid spectre hanging over the state amid fresh surge in cases in china the state health department and the central health ministry are focused on improving vaccine coverage however many citizens who turned up at the health centres for booster jabs had to return disappointed as these places do not have adequate stocks of vaccines a top health department official of ahmedabad municipal corporation amc said against 300 daily vaccinations till last week the demand has risen to 6000 of course there are no stocks to cater to the surge we have already sent our stock requirement details to the state health department said the official a senior state health department official told toi that they have placed a request of 10 lakh doses of covishield and 2 lakh doses of covaxin with the central ministry with daily vaccinations going down in the past few months the existing stocks either expired or did not get replenished all the cities and districts were provided stocks according to their requests we are hopeful of getting fresh stocks after we initiate a sustained drive for booster doses said the official gujarat has overall coverage of about 36 for booster doses in vadodara while covaxin is available at most vaccination booths theres shortage of covishield and corbevax stocks the latter is used to vaccinate children in the 1214 age group earlier there were no takers for vaccines but now those who arent fully vaccinated are clamouring for the jabs the demand is unexpected we are supplied vaccines based on the number of individuals who are yet to take the doses with the demand surging again we have sought fresh supply of vaccines and it should reach us soon said dr devesh patel health officer of vadodara municipal corporation vmcsituation no different in rajkot and surat the scenario is similar in rajkot where the civic body ran out of covishield stock about 10 days ago rajkot municipal corporation officials said that they have sought 10000 doses from the state government as the demand for vaccination has gone up we are left with 400 doses of covaxin we have requested 8000 doses said a health department official adding that only 23 of the eligible population in rajkot has taken the booster dose surat municipal corporation smc is left with vaccine doses to last them for three days over 10000 people took vaccine shots in the last four days in surat following the china covid crisis from around 500 jabs daily the city now sees 2500 doses being administered we can continue with vaccinations for the next two or three days for adults and teenagers we are hopeful that the government will replenish our stocks said a health officerwith inputs from yagnesh mehta in surat and nimesh khakhariya in rajkot