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24.60 crore vaccine doses provided to states/UTs: Centre

  •   Sun, Jun 06 2021 10:59:49 PM

New Delhi, Jun 6 (IANS): Amid reports of vaccine shortage in some states, the Centre on Sunday said that 24.60 crore Covid vaccine doses have been provided to states/UTs till date.

It said that it has so far provided, both through the free of cost category and through direct state procurement category, more than 24 crore vaccine doses (24,60,80,900) to states/UTs, and of this, total consumption, including wastages, is 22,96,95,199 doses (as per data available at 8 a.m. on Sunday).

More than 1.63 crore vaccine doses (1,63,85,701) are still available with the states/UTs to be administered, it added.

The Central government said that it has been supporting the states and UTs by providing them Covid vaccines free of cost, and in addition, has also been facilitating direct procurement of vaccines by them.

Vaccination is an integral pillar of the comprehensive strategy of government for containment and management of the pandemic, along with Test, Track, Treat and Covid Appropriate Behaviour, it said.

 
  

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Nallasopara

    Mon, Jun 07 2021

    Show us the Proof ...

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  • Raj, Mangalore

    Sun, Jun 06 2021

    The Centre’s responses to RTI requests have led an activist to allege a difference of 6.95 crore doses between vaccines distributed and those received by the Centre, pointing to an inescapable and large discrepancy. “How is it that the distribution or supply of COVID-19 vaccines by the Centre was more than the doses received by it,” RTI activist Commodore Lokesh Batra said. Batra had filed three queries under the Right to Information Act. He received replies from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, which gave him data on vaccine procurement. On going through the replies and comparing it with information put out by the Press Information Bureau and the Ministry of External Affairs earlier, Batra claimed that “the difference between vaccine doses distributed or supplied and received” was a whopping 6.95 crore.

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