Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Saturday accused the Centre of “sitting on” the vaccine distribution system and asked how private hospitals were getting vaccines.

Alleging “mismanagement” by the Central government, he sought to know as to why states were being told that there is a shortage of stocks while private hospitals were getting vaccines.

Sisodia further said that Delhi needs 1.84 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses to inoculate 92 lakh people in the age group between 18 to 44 but the Centre has provided only 4.5 lakh doses in April and 3.67 lakh doses in May.

“The Centre has informed us that a limited stock of 5.5 lakh doses will be provided in June, but not before June 10,” he said.

The deputy CM said that the shortage of vaccine doses has forced the Delhi government to shut inoculation centres for the 18-44 age group, urging the Centre to share the data on doses provided to the states and the private sector.

He also that he had raised the demand of zero GST on COVID-19 vaccines, oxygen cylinders, concentrators, ventilators and other equipment used in the treatment of the viral disease during Friday’s GST Council meeting.

Meanwhile, Delhi on Saturday logged 956 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the lowest in over two months. This is the first time since March 22, when 888 infections were recorded, that daily cases in Delhi have dropped below 1,000.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stressed that if new infections continue to decline, more activities will be allowed to open up in the city.

The phase-wise process of easing the lockdown restrictions in the capital will begin from Monday, starting with the resumption of construction activities and the reopening of factories for a week.