States, UTs have more than 75 L vax doses, over 48 L to be delivered in 3 days: Govt
Extending support to the states and union territories in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health on Tuesday said an additional 48 lakh vaccine doses will be sent to various places in three days.
More than 75 lakh vaccine doses (75,24,903) are still available with the States/UTs, which are to be administered, it cleared.
In an official release, the health ministry said the Centre has so far provided nearly 16.69 crore Covid vaccine doses (16,69,97,410) to States/UTs free of charge. Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 15,94,75,507 doses, as per data available at 8 am Tuesday.
‘Over 4 lakh beneficiaries of age group 18-44 vaccinated’
More than four lakh beneficiaries, belonging to the age group of 18-44 years have been vaccinated till date since the third phase of the vaccination drive commenced on Saturday, informed the government on Tuesday morning.
Around 4,06,339 people were vaccinated across 12 states and union territories as on May 3.
According to the official release by the union health ministry, Chhattisgarh administered 1,025 vaccine doses, Delhi — 40,028, Gujarat — 1,08,191, Haryana — 55,565, Jammu and Kashmir — 5,587, Karnataka — 2,353, Maharashtra — 73,714, Odisha — 6,802, Punjab — 635, Rajasthan — 76,151, Tamil Nadu — 2,744 and Uttar Pradesh — 33,544. “As on Day-108 of the vaccination drive (May 3, 2021), 17,08,390 vaccine doses were given,” it added. “The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 15.89 crore today,” said the health ministry.
The ministry further stated that ten states accounted for 66.94 per cent of the cumulative doses given so far in the country.