Supply slipping, Centre to speed up Covid-19 vaccine delivery to states

Vaccine makers asked to send more doses to central government on priority

The Centre is planning to expedite delivery of Covid-19 vaccines to states that have low inventory and also increase sourcing from vaccine makers over the next few weeks.

Next month, the health ministry is likely to receive 60 million of the 100 million doses of Covishield it had ordered from Serum Institute of India (SII).

A senior government official indicated that for states like Maharashtra and Karnataka, which are vaccinating at high speed, more doses will be dispatched soon. “We have given 7.3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Maharashtra so far, of which around 4.9 doses have been consumed,”