New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday informed that the Centre has provided more than 26 crore COVID vaccine doses to States and Union Territories UTs so far,
According to Union Health Ministry, a total of 26,64,84,350 vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far, through the Government of India (free of cost channel) and through the direct state procurement category. Of this, the total consumption, including wastages is 25,12,66,637 doses.
More than 1.53 crore (1,53,79,233) COVID Vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered. Furthermore, more than 4 lakh (4,48,760) vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the States/UTs within the next three days, read the official statement.
With 80,834 COVID-19 reported cases in the last 24 hours India continued its declining trend of new infections and reported the lowest single-day count in 71 days. The new cases pushed the COVID case tally in the country to 2,94,39,989.
India has been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload and the currently active number of COVID cases stands at 10,26,159 with a net decrease of 54,531 cases in the last 24 hours.
Notably, implementation of the “Liberalized and Accelerated Phase-III” strategy of COVID-19 vaccination has started from May 1, 2021.
