Watch | Official Data Itself Tells us Centre is Lying With Its 12-Cr Vaccine Dose Promise in June

Name: Watch | Official Data Itself Tells us Centre is Lying With Its 12-Cr Vaccine Dose Promise in June - The Wire
Uploaded: 2021-06-04T23:50:03+05:30
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Description: The Centre has said that it will make 12 crore vaccine doses available in June 2021.

The Centre has said that it will make 12 crore vaccine doses available in June 2021.

Arfa Khanum Sherwani

The Centre has said that it will make 12 crore vaccine doses available in June 2021.

watch official data itself tells us centre is lying with its 12 cr vaccine dose promise in june

On May 30, 2021, the Centre put out a press release that announced India’s vaccine plan for June 2021. In this release, the Centre said that it would “make available” 12 crore vaccine doses in June 2021. Of these 12 crore vaccine doses, 6.1 crore doses are to be the Centre’s quota, and 5.9 crore doses will be “available” for direct purchase by state governments and private hospitals. The Wire's senior editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani discusses the flaws in this breakdown.

This article went live on June fourth, two thousand twenty one, at fifty minutes past eleven at night.

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