New Delhi: The Modi government has set a target to vaccinate all the adult population by the end of this year. However, many opposition parties including the Congress are questioning the success of this announcement of the government. They are apprehensive about the availability of the vaccine, which is currently being described as inadequate as per the demand.
The government has apprised the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the road map aimed at providing the vaccine to all. In the meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee related to the Ministry of Home Affairs held on Monday, the Union Home Secretary, Union Health Secretary and other officials gave a presentation giving complete information. According to him, there will be a tremendous increase in the supply of vaccines across the country from August. According to officials, between August and December, there will be a supply of about 135 crore vaccine doses, which is enough to vaccinate every adult.
Above all, these do not include vaccines from companies such as Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson, whose availability in India is not yet clear. The companies that are expected to provide vaccines include 500 million doses of Covishield, 400 million doses of Covaxin, 300 million doses of Bio E’s Kovovax, 100 million doses of Sputnik V and 50 million doses of Zydus Cadila’s Zycov-D. Huh.
So far, at least one dose of corona vaccine has been given to more than 33 crore people in the country. Out of these, there are about 5.60 crore people who have been given both the doses. The vaccination campaign has registered an average increase of almost 100 percent since the implementation of the new policy on the vaccine program on June 21. In the committee meeting, when the members asked the officials present about the effectiveness of these vaccines on different forms of corona virus, they said that all the vaccines are more or less effective against these types.
Officials said that cases are decreasing in the second wave but not completely over yet. Therefore caution is needed. Expressing his inability to tell the probable timing of the third wave, he said that the government is making all possible preparations to deal with the third wave. Officials said cases of Delta Plus, known as the ‘virus of concern’, are on the rise.
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