Avoid unrealistic Covid-19 vaccine expectations: Harsh Vardhan to states

Health minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday urged states to understand the limited availability of vaccines and not create unrealistic and impractical expectations while ensuring judicious use of doses to minimise wastage. 

“The government is making all efforts to ramp up vaccine production in the country. Vaccines are scientifically distributed among you and we both know how much you have and what is in the pipeline. Please understand the seriousness of this issue,” Vardhan said. 

The health minister was holding a meeting with eight states that have been showing a higher number of daily cases, positivity rate and mortality. The states were Uttarakhand,