FinMin estimates 670 mn vaccine doses will be given before festive season

Average vaccination rate doubled in June to 4.13 mn doses from 1.93 mn in May after the implementation of the new vaccination policy, the finance ministry said

Going by the current pace of inoculation, the finance ministry estimates 670 million Covid-19 vaccine doses will be administered before September under the Centre’s revised centralised vaccination policy, just in time for the festive season.

It said further expansion of vaccination will be a critical safeguard against the emergence of a possible third wave and will restore economic activities. “A rapid vaccination drive coupled with targeted fiscal relief and monetary policy measures helped the economy in revival from the impact of the second wave of the pandemic,” the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) said in its Monthly Economic Review for June.

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