Since the central government announced “free for all” vaccines, the pace of vaccination has picked up. In May, India was administering 2 million doses daily; and by September it was recording 7.9 million daily average doses. The free-for-all vaccination has helped bridge the social divide. A Business Standard analysis shows that in 17 of the 27 states for which data is available, districts with a larger share of Muslim population have fully vaccinated more people than those where the minority population is lower than average. For simplicity, the analysis excludes union territories (except Delhi) and six territories where 100 per