amaravati a heros struggle to get the second dose of a particular brand of vaccine for the heroine is the movies storyline a writer tells the producer during a story discussionthats a cartoon that has gone viral in social media in the two telugu states in recent daysthe villagers extend a grand welcome to singannapalem simham lion who is coming after getting the second dose of coronavirus vaccine says another meme displayed on a huge hoarding with an onlooker taking a bewildered glance at itthese jokes ribtickling they sure are hold a mirror to the current scarcity of the coronavirus vaccine particularly covaxin in andhra pradeshat least 1793555 people in the 45plus age group and some healthcare workers and frontline workers in the state are due for the second dose of covid19 vaccine but the government hardly has any stock left in handso much so that it has now stopped giving the first dose of the vaccine to anyonethe government of india allocates 10 lakh doses to the state per fortnight and so far this fortnight only 85 lakh doses were deliveredthe state directly purchased five lakh doses from the serum institute of india and bharat biotech and is now awaiting the delivery of the second tranche of 12 lakh dosesin the first fortnight of may we have so far vaccinated 596789 people with the second dose and another 696941 are due another 1096614 will be due for the second dose in the second fortnight principal secretary health anil kumar singhal told p t ithe state stopped giving the covid19 vaccine first dose to the citizens this month as the backlog of the second dose has to be clearedin all the state received 7349960 doses of vaccine 6060400 doses of covishield and 1289560 of covaxin from the centreso far a total of 7300460 doses first and second were administered to healthcare workers frontline workers and those above 45 year of age in the statevaccination for persons in the 1844 age group has not started as scheduled from may 1 due to shortage of vaccineswe have to get 991 lakh doses of covishield as per normal allocation of the 343 lakh covaxin doses allotted 143930 were delivered to us now we got an additional 350 lakh doses of covishield yesterday singhal saidaccordingly the government is now planning to complete the second dose vaccination this month so that the first dose could be started from next monthsources in the health department said technical issues also hampered the vaccination programmethe union ministry of health on april 30 rejected the state governments request for a modification in the cowin app to enable vaccination of the 45plus aged persons from the vaccines it directly purchasedafter several rounds of correspondence the centre finally accepted the states proposal to make necessary changes in the cowin appnow that we started purchasing vaccines directly the modifications in the app will enable us to go ahead with the vaccination of those above 45 years our priority now is to complete