Statsguru: Six months on, India's Covid-19 vaccination drive is lagging

Orders for 786 million doses have been placed to date - less than the probable need of 950 million

India completed six months of Covid-19 vaccination last week. The campaign began on January 16, 2021. Till July 15, about 390 million doses were administered in the country with a population of 1,350 million. Even if we consider the working age and senior population, India would need to administer 950 million doses to fully vaccinate 50 per cent of them.
 
The first step in the process is to procure vaccines. Though all the details about orders are not available publicly, an RTI application by a citizen, Lokesh Batra, has put forth the exact dates when the central government placed