Bhushan wrote back the next day, dismissing the charge of “insufficient and erratic” supply and asserting that the state had more than adequate stock to keep the drive running. Odisha, he pointed out, had received a stock of 34.46 lakh doses of which it had used up only 22.97 lakh does, leaving a healthy surplus of 11.49 lakh doses. With 5.48 doses already on their way and set to reach the state in the next 24 hours, the state would have a stock of 16.97 lakh doses, which should be good enough to keep the vaccination drive going in view of the fact that the state had been inoculating people at the average rate of just 68,000, Bhushan had said in his reply.