India's vaccination drive will get a major boost this month, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. He was responding to Gandhi's tweet questioning the availability of vaccines.
Talks are still on with Moderna, Sputnik yet to be procured for the national Covid vaccination programme, which means Covishield and Covaxin will remain the mainstay.
A health ministry statement said that the reports are 'ill-informed' and misrepresented facts and asserted that over 51.60 crore doses will be supplied from January to 31 July.
More than 45.73 crore vaccine doses have been supplied to states/UTs so far. Of this, total consumption, including wastage, stands at 43,80,46,844 doses, as per 8 am data Tuesday.
From January to 16 July, 54.5 million doses of Covaxin have been supplied to the government, MoS Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in Parliament, earlier this week.
In a review published in Nature, scientists in Germany say a single vaccine dose administered after a year of recovering from Covid-19 could also boost immunity.
Unequal access to high-speed internet and a computer or smartphone — as well as confidence navigating the web — can affect the number getting vaccinated.
Dr Monica Gandhi, infectious disease specialist at University of California, says India will unlikely see a third wave since second wave would have caused natural immunity in many people.
The LocalCircles survey says the findings are 'quite concerning' given that experts have predicted that the third wave of Covid is likely to hit India between August-September.
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