A day ahead of when India opens vaccine registration for all over 18, figures from the Health Ministry show that relative to stocks, Tamil Nadu reported a high percentage of vaccine wastage of nearly 8.83%. Only Lakshwadeep had a higher wastage ratio of 9.76%. Assam, Manipur and Haryana ranked after Tamil Nadu in wastage of vaccines at 7.7%, 7.4% and 5.2% respectively.
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Over 1 crore vaccines remain in stock with the States. An additional 80 lakh will be made available to them in the next three days, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Uttar Pradesh had the maximum available doses, about 1 million, followed by Maharashtra with 9,00,000 doses and Bihar with 7,50,000 doses.
Maharashtra led the table of vaccines administered with 1.4 crore doses followed by Rajasthan (1.3 crore), Uttar Pradesh (1.23 crore) and Gujarat (1.21 crore). These were also the States that had so far received the maximum number of vaccines, again in that order.
The Andaman and Nicobar islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Mizoram, Odisha were the States that had reported no vaccine shortage.
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The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country on Tuesday touched 14.5 crore. These include 93,24,770 HCWs [health care workrs] who have taken the first dose and 60,60,718 HCWs who have taken the second dose, 1,21,10,258 FLWs [front line workers] (first dose), 64,25,992 FLWs (second dose), 5,05,77,743 first dose beneficiaries and 87,31,091 second dose beneficiaries more than 60 years old and 4,93,48,238 (first dose) and 26,92,376 (second dose) beneficiaries aged 45 to 60 years.
There were 3.1 million vaccine doses given in the last 24 hours. 19,73,778 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 22,797 sessions for first dose and 12,00,910 beneficiaries received second dose of the vaccine.
