Amaravati, July 28 -- Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy today said that he would write to the central government seeking permission to reallocate unused COVID-19 vaccines from private hospitals to government medical centers.

In a review meeting with health department officials, the chief minister was informed that out of 43,38,000 doses of vaccine allotted to private hospitals for the month of May, June, and July only 5,24,347 doses were used. Reddy then directed officials to arrange for oxygen concentrators at public health clinics and set up a department for the maintenance of newly procured concentrators.

Remarking on the 20,965 active cases with a recovery rate of 98.25% and a daily positivity rate of 2.51%, the Chi...