As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, Government of India (GoI) has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID Vaccines free of cost, in addition to several efforts to ramp up its production and supply.
The government of India has so far provided more than 20 crore vaccine doses (20,76,10,230) to States/UTs Free of Cost.
Of this, the total consumption, calculated based on average up to 16th May 2021, including wastages is 18,71,13,705doses (as per data available at 8 AM today).
More than 2 crore COVID Vaccine doses (2,04,96,525) are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.
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Furthermore, nearly three lakhs (2,94,660) vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the States/UTs within the next 3 days.
More than 20 crore vaccine doses provided to States/UTs Free of Cost by Govt. of India, so far
More than 2 crore doses still available with States/UTs to be administered
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Vaccination is an integral pillar of the comprehensive strategy of the Government of India for containment and management of the pandemic, along with Test, Track, Treat, and COVID Appropriate Behavior.
Implementation of the Liberalized and Accelerated Phase 3 Strategy of Covid-19 Vaccination has started from 1st May 2021. Under the Strategy, every month 50% of the total Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL) cleared vaccine doses of any manufacturer would be procured by Govt. of India. It would continue to make these doses available to the State Governments totally free of cost as was being done earlier.
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