Free booster drive to salvage wastage of coronavirus vaccine doses

Rate of vaccination jumps from 153,000/day to 1.86 million in the 18-59 yr cohort after free booster drive was rolled out

In mid-June, Maharashtra was sitting on 3.4 million Covishield doses that had an August expiry date and less than 10,000 Covaxin doses were set to expire in June itself.

After the 75-day free booster drive campaign began on July 15, Maharashtra has not only exhausted its vaccine inventory, but is now getting fresh stocks almost every week.

The “Amrit Mahotsav” free vaccine drive — on the occasion of the 75th year of India’s Independence — is likely to salvage several million doses of Covid vaccines from being wasted. The demand for boosters has now picked up significantly.

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