India May Get 80 Crore Covid-19 Vaccine Doses For Adults Between September And December This Year

Covid vaccine production in India is build up and India is likely to get 80 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses for adults between September and December this year as informed by Prof Narendra Kumar Arora, co-chair of COVAX facility – the international vaccine-sharing initiative.

According to the reports, the government aims to administer one crore doses per day, and its expected vaccine availability between August and December is about 135 crore doses. Arora, President of AIIMS Jharkhand and Patna stated that as the production is ramped up and availability is increased, they are expecting to deliver 20 crore monthly doses in September, 25 crores in October, and 35 crores each in November and December. As per the COWIN data, 6 to 7 per cent of the current doses are being administered by private hospitals.

According to the Union Health Ministry’s latest provisional report, more than 7.95 lakh vaccine doses have been administered in India on August 22, taking the total number of vaccine doses administered so far to 58.25 crores. India currently has four vaccines approved for use: Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, Sputnik and Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D.