The state government is planning to set up more Covid-19 vaccination sites following a confirmation from the Centre that the second lot of Covishield doses will arrive in Calcutta on Wednesday.

In the second round, 6.99 lakh doses are expected to arrive in the city, state government officials said. Some of the doses will be for other eastern and northeastern states.

“The additional doses will help expedite the vaccination process,” a health department official said.

Twenty more private hospitals in and around Calcutta are likely to open Covid-19 vaccination sites next week, a state government official who is managing Covid-19 sites in the city has said.

Only three private hospitals in the city have so far been allowed to run vaccination sites.

Some of the hospitals where sites could be opened are Belle Vue Clinic, Woodlands Hospital, CMRI, AMRI Mukundapur, Charnock Hospital and Narayana Superspeciality Hospital in Howrah.

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation also issued an order on Tuesday announcing that Covid-19 vaccination sites will be set up at 11 more ward health clinics from Monday.

“We had a meeting with private hospitals on Tuesday. We will conduct inspections soon to see if they are prepared to run vaccination sites on their campuses. They are expected to begin vaccination on their campuses from early next week,” said the state government official.

Pradip Tondon, the CEO of Belle Vue, said three representatives of each of the 20 hospitals attended Tuesday’s meeting.

“The nodal officer chosen for Covid-19 vaccination in each of these hospitals, the system manager and a vaccinator were called to the meeting. They were informed about the Co-Win application and other necessary details,” said Tondon.

“All the selected hospitals have to vaccinate healthcare workers of other healthcare institutions in the vicinity that do not have a Covid-19 vaccination site on their campus,” he said.

On Tuesday, 13,693 healthcare workers were vaccinated across the state. The number of those vaccinated was 13,661 on Monday and 15,707 on Saturday, the first day of Covid vaccination.

“Eleven adverse events were reported on Tuesday but those were mostly minor issues like pain at the injection site,” said Ajay Chakraborty, the director of health services of the state government.