Govt likely to reduce private sector's 25% Covid-19 vaccine quota

The Centre has indicated that with lower utilisation of Covid vaccines by the private sector, its 25 per cent quota may not be necessary.
 
Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya told Rajya Sabha, in response to a question by MP Sushil Kumar Modi, that the government took over 7-9 per cent of the private sector’s quota since it had not been utilised.
 
Vaccine makers, the government has indicated, can provide doses to the private sector according to demand and the remaining would be bought by the government.
 
If private players do not pick up 25 per cent of the