Government aims to administer 1 Crore vaccine doses daily; CISF to accord Bharat Biotech
- In Reports
- 05:48 PM, Jun 09, 2021
- Myind Staff
The Union government is aiming to administer one crore coronavirus vaccine doses daily from August and advance orders of nearly 100 crore vaccines are being placed this month so that supplies could start coming in batches from August, News18 has learnt.
The daily vaccination stands at an average of 30 lakh this month.
“The target is to hit the one crore daily jabs mark in August. The new centralised free vaccination policy will help in this objective," a senior government official said.
Meanwhile, the government has decided to accord Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) security cover to the Hyderabad-based campus of Bharat Biotech, one of the major Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers in the country, official sources said.
They said a decision in this regard was taken after a review meeting of the security experts in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and accordingly the CISF has been informed to prepare accordingly.
NITI Aayog member V.K. Paul on Tuesday also hinted towards a big escalation in vaccination numbers soon, saying India needs to “absorb" the big jump in vaccination supplies that are expected to come in from August.
The official sources said, the registered office and plant of the company located at Genome Valley in the Shameerpet area of Hyderabad will be secured by “a team of 64 armed personnel of the paramilitary force”. For this purpose, the CISF has already carried out a survey.
“The organisation is an important facility when it comes to ensuring medical and health security of the country and it obviously faces a terror threat from various inimical elements. The CISF, hence, has been tasked to secure the Bharat Biotech facility in Hyderabad,” a senior MHA official said.
A spokesperson for CISF said, the force “will be inducted at the facility, which manufactures Covaxin, on June 14”.
A daily country-wide vaccination target of one crore from August, which is expected to rise further in subsequent months, would stand the country in good stead for ‘absorbing’ the advance orders of 100 crore jabs being placed this month for those five months plus more anticipated supplies.
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