A total of 1,270 doses of Covishield and 440 of Covaxin were stolen from the civil hospital in Jind, SHO of Civil Lines police station Rajender Singh said.
According to the govt's CO-WIN portal, about 15 states and UTs, including Goa, Chandigarh and Jammu and Kashmir, have administered only Covishield to its beneficiaries.
In a statement posted on its Twitter handle, Serum Institute of India said it will address the limited capacity by scaling up the vaccine production over the next two months.
There is a chance that the AstraZeneca vaccine is associated with an increased risk of a rare condition characterized by blood clotting coupled with a fall in platelet counts.
In a letter to the Serum Institute, Drugs Controller General of India Somani said the institute is permitted to apply the shelf life of 9 months to unlabeled vials available on hand.
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