Counting wastage, India may need 66.6cr doses of vaccine

The Union health ministry has calculated the number of vaccines the government would need to purchase: 111 doses to inoculate every 50 beneficiaries. This means that to administer two doses of a vaccine to 30 crore people, the government would need to buy 66.6 crore, and not just 60 crore doses as originally planned.

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