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5 States, Union Territories Have No Personal Facility For Covid Vaccine: Authorities Knowledge


Tamil Nadu is the one state within the nation with over 1,000 non-public services conducting vaccinations

New Delhi: With the third part of COVID-19 vaccination opening up in lower than two weeks for everybody above 18 years largely by non-public services, authorities knowledge reveals virtually all small states and union territories are nonetheless solely or largely dependent upon authorities services.

In accordance with the federal government’s CoWIN portal, 13 small states and union territories have lower than 10 non-public services the place vaccination in opposition to COVID-19 an infection is being performed and out of those, 5 states and union territories haven’t any non-public services for vaccination.

The states and union territories with lower than 10 non-public services for vaccination are – Andaman and Nicobar (0 non-public facility), Arunachal Pradesh (0), Dadra and Nagar Haveli (2), Daman and Diu (0), Ladakh (0), Lakshadweep (0), Manipur (3), Meghalaya (7), Nagaland (4), Puducherry (7), Sikkim (1), Tripura (1) and Mizoram (2), based on the CoWIN portal’s dashboard.

A senior well being ministry official had earlier mentioned some states and union territories haven’t any non-public services conducting vaccination as a consequence of absence of such services there.

Tamil Nadu is the one state within the nation with over 1,000 non-public services conducting vaccinations. It has 1,118 services.

Compared, Delhi, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh reporting excessive numbers of COVID-19 circumstances have 817, 230, 1101 and 561 non-public services conducting vaccinations respectively.

The position of personal services conducting vaccinations holds significance in view of the federal government’s announcement to liberalise the vaccination drive to permit states, non-public hospitals and industrial institutions to acquire the doses instantly from producers within the third part of COVID-19 vaccinations.

Within the third part commencing from Could 1, all above 18 years of age will probably be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination.

The announcement comes as India grappled to rein within the surging coronavirus infections that crossed 1.50 crore.
 

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)

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