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# Major States are seen punching below their weight when it comes to Covid vaccination, despite being equipped with the necessary infrastructure, trained vaccinators and cold-chain networks.
Be it Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Kerala, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan or Uttar Pradesh, vaccine supply shortage continues to be the key spoiler, leading to subpar coverage — this is even as the Centre maintains that over 2.2 crore doses remain unutilised with the States and UTs as on August 7.
# Maharashtra Chief Minister opens up Mumbai’s locals for citizens who are fully vaccinated, from August 15.
# Meanwhile, those who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 can now get their vaccination certificate through WhatsApp.
# Kerala rung in the first Sunday with a total lockdown after the State government revised the guidelines a few days ago.
# Meanwhile, Kerala reported 18,607 new Covid-19 cases on the first Sunday after it implemented a revised strategy for the containment of the pandemic, in which the test positivity rate (TPR) was replaced with a weekly infection population rate (WIPR) .
# Internationally, China reported more Covid-19 cases as it entered the third week of its current outbreak on Monday, while some cities added rounds of mass testing in the effort to stamp out locally-transmitted infections.
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