Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 27: Jammu and Kashmir has, so far, wasted 2.58 percent of Covid vaccination supplied by the Union Government to administered doses to the residents of J&K.
As per data shared by the Union Health Minister on Tuesday evening, the Union Territory of Lakshadeep is top in wasting 9.76 percent of Covid vaccine followed by Tamilnadu 8.83.
J&K has received 22,81,840 doses of vaccine from the Union Government. 21,83,396 doses have been administered so far in the UT including wastages. 98,444 doses of the vaccine are still available in J&K while as 2,00,000 doses are in the supply line.
Union Government made it clear that vaccine is a crucial pillar of the five-point strategy of to fight the pandemic, which includes Test, Track, Treat and COVID Appropriate Behaviour (CAB) as the other complementing and equally important containment and management measures. India launched the world’s largest vaccination drive on January 16, 2021. A liberalised and accelerated Phase 3 strategy of Covid-19 Vaccination will be implemented from 1st May 2021.
“In its Phase-III, the National Vaccine Strategy aims at liberalized vaccine pricing and scaling up of vaccine coverage. Procurement, eligibility, and administration of vaccines have been made flexible as part of the Liberalised vaccination Strategy”, the official handout mentioned.
The government of India has so far provided more than 15 crore vaccine doses (15,65,26,140) to States/UTs Free of Cost. Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 14,64,78,983 doses. More than 1 crore doses (1,00,47,157) are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.
More than 80 Lakh (86,40,000) doses will be received in addition by the States/UTs in the next 3 days.
Recently some media reports quoting some government officials from Maharashtra have pointed out that the vaccines in the State are finished thereby adversely impacting the vaccination drive in the state. It is clarified that the total COVID vaccine doses received by Maharashtra as on 27th April 2021 (at 8 am) are 1,58,62,470. Of this, the total consumption including wastage (0.22%) was 1,49,39,410. Balance of 9,23,060 doses is still available with the state for administration of vaccine doses to the eligible population groups. |
