New Delhi: The government has so far ordered around 100 doses of covid vaccine crore, two-thirds of it in the past two weeks.
This was revealed in the Ministry of Health’s response to questions at Rajya Sabha.
According to a reply, 66 Crore doses booked on July 16 from 100.6 doses of Crore were ordered so far by the central government.
Minister of Health Junior, Bharati Pravin Pawar, answered questions from Congress MP Kapil Sibal on the Covid vaccine ordered by the government so far from various producers.
Data does not include doses obtained by India from Covax (global mechanism for procurement collected for various countries), which are purchased by the United States and the dosage obtained directly by private hospitals from two producers.
Until March 12, the government only ordered 18.6 doses of crore, after it ordered 16 crores in 5.
May until it could end, he had ordered 26.6 doses of crore covishield and eight doses of Covaxin Crore.
Responding to questions that seek the order details placed by foreign vaccine producers, the minister said that the government has formed a team to deal with various problems related to the procurement of Covid vaccines from foreign manufacturers and that “this team is dialogue with foreign producers”.
India ordered 100 doses of covid crore vaccines until July 16: Center
