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According to the data released by the Union health ministry, nearly 12 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine will be made available to states and UTs in June for the national Covid-19 vaccination programme in the country.
Vaccine, being a biological product, takes time for harvesting and quality testing and this cannot be done overnight to ensure a safe product, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.
The health ministry said the Centre is regularly interacting with national and international manufacturers like Pfizer, Moderna to make vaccines available in the country