Since May 1, the highest number of doses given on a single day was on Saturday with more than 30 lakh people getting their jab.
The Union Health Ministry on Sunday said that nearly 12 crore doses of coronavirus vaccine will be available in June 2021, half of which would be supplied by the centre to states free of cost.
In May, 7.94 crore doses were available for vaccination, read a press release by the Health Ministry. The ministry said the allocation of supplies to states and union territories is decided on the consumption pattern, population and vaccine wastage.
“Visibility for the availability of vaccines for the entire month of June 2021 has been provided well in advance to States/UTs…,” it said.
“For the month of June, 6.09 crore (6,09,60,000) doses of COVID vaccines will be supplied to the States and UTs for vaccination of priority group of Health Care Workers (HCWs), Front-Line Workers (FLWs) and persons aged 45 years and above as free supply from Government of India,” the ministry said.
“In addition, more than 5.86 crores (5,86,10,000) doses will be available for direct procurement by the state/UTs and Private Hospitals. Therefore, in June 2021 close to 12 crores (11,95,70,000) doses will be available for the national COVID vaccination programme,” it said.
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Since May 1, the highest number of doses given on a single day was on Saturday with more than 30 lakh people getting their jab.
With more than 2.2 crore doses administered so far, Maharashtra has taken a lead in the vaccination drive. Uttar Pradesh is next in line with over 1.8 crore doses followed by Gujarat and Karnataka having given almost 1.7 crore doses so far.
More than 18.5 crore doses of Covishield have been given to people and around 2.9 crore doses of Covaxin. India now also has the Russian Sputnik V available for the people and over 7,400 of its doses have been administered to beneficiaries so far.
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