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The Ministry of Health on Wednesday said that 17.6% of coronavirus vaccines were wasted or spoiled in Telangana in the two months since India started its inoculation drive. This was followed by Andhra Pradesh, where 11.6% of the total doses were wasted.
India’s overall percentage of vaccine wastage was 6.5%, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said at a press briefing. He urged state authorities to work toward reducing such wastage drastically.
NITI Aayog Member (Health) VK Paul said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, too, had expressed his disappointment over the high wastage rates, during his meeting with the chief ministers on Thursday. “It is a precious commodity,” Paul said. “We have to understand that.”
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The report further explains that the researchers studied a case in Kurnool, which they said was the second reinfection case in India caused by the variant, one of the most rouge mutants of the virus.