The Government of India has so far provided, both through the free of cost category and through direct state procurement category, more than 21.89 crore vaccine doses (21,89,69,250) to states and union territories. Another 7 lakh vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the states within the next 3 days, the Union Health Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

 If this, the total consumption, including wastages is 19.93 crore as per data available on Tuesday morning.

Which means at present there are more than 1.77 crore COVID vaccine doses available with the states to carry out the phase 3 accelerated inoculation drive that began on May 1 to cover all adults in the country.

As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, the Government of India has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID vaccines free of cost. In addition, the Govt. of India has also been facilitating direct procurement of vaccines by the States/UTs, the health ministry said.

As part of the strategy, in every month 50% of the total vaccine doses of any manufacturer would be procured by Govt. of India. It would continue to make these doses available to the State Govts totally free of cost as was being done earlier, the health ministry statement added.