Since India began inoculating people against Covid in January, a huge number of vaccine doses have been wasted by some Indian states, Local media NDTV reported.
A Right to Information (RTI) plea revealed that several Indian states including Tamil Nadu,
Haryana, Punjab, Manipur, and Telangana reported vaccine wastage.
Over 4.4 million doses were wasted out of 10 million doses used by the Indian states till April 11.
But there was zero wastage of the vaccine in several other states including Kerala, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Goa, Daman and Diu, and Andaman and Nicobar islands.
Rajesh Bhushan, the union health secretary, had recently pointed out that the problem was lack of better planning, not a shortage of vaccine doses. The Indian government has been supplying vaccines for the bigger states for four days in one lot, and replenishing supplies on the fourth and fifth days.