Govt trashes reviews on lacking goal of administering 50 crore Covid vaccine doses by July-end

The authorities on Tuesday dismissed media reviews that claimed that India will miss the end-July goal of administering 50 crore Covid vaccine doses as “ill-informed and misrepresenting” and asserted that over 51.60 crore vaccine doses will likely be provided from January to July 31.
The well being ministry issued a press release referring to current media reviews alleging that the nation will miss the goal of administering half-a-billion (50 crore) doses of the Covid-19 vaccine by July-end, whereas stating that the federal government had said in May that it might make 516 million (51.60 crore) vaccine pictures accessible by the tip of this month.
“These reports are ill-informed and have clearly misrepresented the facts,” the assertion stated.
The figures of 516 million vaccine doses may need been picked up from varied sources which knowledgeable in regards to the probably availability of the vaccine doses from January to July-end, it added.
“The facts are that a total of more than 516 million vaccine doses will indeed be supplied from January 2021 to 31st July, 2021,” the ministry stated.
It added that the vaccine doses are provided to the states in accordance with the advance allocation plan and they’re knowledgeable about it upfront. The vaccines are provided to the states in varied schedules all through the month.
“Therefore, availability of 516 million doses until finish of a specific month doesn’t imply that each dose provided until that month goes to be consumed/administered.
“There would be supplies in pipeline, which should be available for next few days till the next supplies of vaccine doses materialise in a particular state/district/sub-district to keep vaccination going on,” the assertion stated.

A complete of 45.7 crore doses have been provided to the states and Union territories from January until date and a further 6.03 crore doses are anticipated to be provided by July 31. This will quantity to a complete of 51.73 crore doses provided from January to July 31, it added.
“It should be appreciated that India has crossed the landmark of 440 million (44.19 crore) doses administered, which is the largest number achieved in the world and has been done at quite a brisk pace too. Out of these, 9.6 crore are cases where both the doses have been administered,” the assertion stated.
A complete of 11.97 crore Covid vaccine doses have been administered in June. For the month of July (as on July 26), a complete of 10.62 crore doses have been administered.
It is the endeavour of the federal government to supply vaccination to the eligible residents within the shortest doable time in line with the provision of the vaccines, the assertion stated.