COVID-19: How vaccine wastage happens, how to reduce it
Vaccine wastage happens in all vaccination programmes across the world and is unavoidable. However, with proper planning and care, the wastage can be reduced.
Rai Vinaykumar | May 12, 2021 | Updated 17:20 IST
The Centre has been urging states to reduce vaccine wastage.
Centre and states are making efforts to step up COVID-19 vaccination even as supplies remain limited. One of the factors which can help increase the vaccination pace is reduction in wastage of vaccines.
The Centre has been urging states to reduce vaccine wastage. On Tuesday, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Dr R S Sharma, the Chairman of Empowered Group on Technology and Data Management to Combat COVID-19, in a meeting with state officials to review the status of COVID-19 vaccination highlighted the need to bring down vaccine wastage.
Prioritise vaccinating those due for second dose of COVID-19 vaccine: Centre to states
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Prioritise vaccinating those due for second dose of COVID-19 vaccine: Centre to states
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The urgent need to address a large number of beneficiaries waiting for second dose of vaccine was stressed in a meeting held by Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Dr R S Sharma, the Chairman of Empowered Group on Technology and Data Management to Combat COVID-19, with state officials to review the status of COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday.
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The Centre appealed to states on Tuesday to prioritise vaccinating those due for second dose of COVID-19 vaccine and reserve at least 70 per cent of the shots supplied from the central pool for the purpose.
The Centre appealed to states on Tuesday to prioritise vaccinating those due for second dose of COVID-19 vaccine and reserve at least 70 per cent of the shots supplied from the central pool for the purpose. States have also been urged to minimise wastage of vaccine doses, the health ministry said in a statement. All wastage more than the national average hereafter is to be adjusted from the subsequent allocations to that state or union territory. The urgent need to address a large number of beneficiaries waiting for second dose of vaccine was stressed in a meeting held by Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Dr R S Sharma, the Chairman of Empowered Group on Technology and Data Management to Combat COVID-19, with state officials to review the status of COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday.