More than 22 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses provided to States/UTs: Centre
Coronavirus India: As part of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive, the States and UTs have been provided COVID-19 vaccines free of cost, the Government of India said on Wednesday.
In addition, the Centre has also been facilitating direct procurement of vaccines by the States/UTs, it said.
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Even as the GoI said that COVID-19 vaccination is an integral pillar of the comprehensive strategy of the Central Government for containment and management of the pandemic, along with Test, Track, Treat and COVID Appropriate Behaviour.
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Implementation of the Liberalized and Accelerated Phase-3 Strategy of Covid-19 Vaccination has started from May 1, 2021.
Under the Strategy, every month 50 percent of the total Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL) cleared vaccine doses of any manufacturer would be procured by the Government of India. It added that it would continue to make these doses available to the State Govts totally free of cost as was being done earlier.
The government of India has so far provided, both through the free of cost category and through direct state procurement category, more than 22 crore vaccine doses (22,00,59,880) to States/UTs.
Of this, the total consumption, including wastages is 20,13,74,636 doses (as per data available at 8 AM today). More than 1.77 crore COVID Vaccine doses (1,77,52,594) are still available with the States/UTs to be administered. Furthermore, 1 lakh (1,00,000) vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the States/UTs within the next 3 days.
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