Lok Sabha Question No. 3410 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-05
Subject: Booster Dose of COVID Vaccine
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Rakesh Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3410 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05 TH  AUGUST 2022

## BOOSTER DOSE OF COVID VACCINE

## 3410. SHRI RAKESH SINGH:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the booster dose of COVID vaccine is being administered free of cost to the people in the age group of 18 to 59 years in the country; if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the number of people taking booster dose has increased as a results of the said initiative;
- (c) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether the booster dose of the vaccine has been kept free of cost for a limited period of time, if so, the details thereof;
- (e) whether the Government has made arrangement for availability of sufficient number of vaccine doses to cover all the eligible beneficiaries; and
- (f) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise particularly district-wise in Madhya Pradesh?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a)  to  (f):  Starting  from  15th  July  2022,  under  the  'Covid  Vaccination  Amrit  Mahotsava'  initiative, precaution dose is available free of cost for 75 days (i.e. 30 th September 2022), to all beneficiaries ≥18 years of age at all Government Covid Vaccination Centers (CVCs) after an interval of 6 months from the date of administration of the 2 nd dose.

Administration of precaution dose began from 10 th January 2022, and till 15 th July 2022 a total of 5.26 crore  precaution  doses  were  administered  with  a  daily  average  of  2.83  Lakh  precaution  doses administered whereas from 15 th July  2022  under  'Covid  Vaccination  Amrit  Mahotsava'  a  total  of  3.8 crore  precaution  doses  are  administered  with  a  daily  average  of  25.33  Lakh  vaccine  doses.  Adequate Covid-19 vaccine doses are made available to all States/UTs to vaccinate all eligible beneficiaries with precaution dose. District wise distribution of vaccine is done from State. State/UT wise vaccines supplied in the Covid-19 vaccination programme as on 1 st August 2022, is at annexure-1.

Annexure-1

## State/UT wise vaccine supplied in the Covid-19 vaccination program st

(As on 1 August 2022)

|   S.No. | State/UT               | Covishield   | Covaxin     |
|---------|------------------------|--------------|-------------|
|       1 | A&N Islands            | 7,30,700     | 58,000      |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh         | 7,08,94,100  | 1,58,69,940 |
|       3 | Arunachal Pradesh      | 18,56,370    | 1,98,140    |
|       4 | Assam                  | 4,00,71,359  | 86,70,140   |
|       5 | Bihar                  | 10,39,74,650 | 2,86,79,855 |
|       6 | Chandigarh             | 17,92,050    | 1,73,200    |
|       7 | Chhattisgarh           | 3,25,03,090  | 84,67,350   |
|       8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 6,42,060     | 54,000      |
|       9 | Daman and Diu          | 6,03,390     | 35,000      |
|      10 | Delhi                  | 2,26,73,570  | 85,15,010   |
|      11 | Goa                    | 23,30,410    | 1,74,200    |
|      12 | Gujarat                | 8,30,58,637  | 1,78,39,960 |
|      13 | Haryana                | 3,17,12,800  | 81,54,390   |
|      14 | Himachal Pradesh       | 1,14,95,221  | 8,82,240    |
|      15 | Jammu and Kashmir      | 1,74,62,805  | 26,77,925   |
|      16 | Jharkhand              | 2,87,36,400  | 1,17,88,160 |
|      17 | Karnataka              | 7,42,84,866  | 1,91,23,720 |
|      18 | Kerala                 | 4,01,65,460  | 72,65,870   |
|      19 | Ladakh                 | 4,31,031     | 27,000      |
|      20 | Lakshadweep            | 1,47,295     | 8,000       |
|      21 | Madhya Pradesh         | 9,00,87,870  | 2,29,57,660 |
|      22 | Maharashtra            | 11,95,98,459 | 2,99,23,520 |
|      23 | Manipur                | 31,62,090    | 2,39,000    |
|      24 | Meghalaya              | 27,21,730    | 3,05,000    |
|      25 | Mizoram                | 15,41,271    | 1,99,000    |
|      26 | Nagaland               | 15,01,518    | 1,63,000    |
|      27 | Odisha                 | 5,06,57,480  | 1,23,06,835 |
|      28 | Puducherry             | 16,91,020    | 1,02,000    |
|      29 | Punjab                 | 3,57,56,714  | 73,45,500   |
|      30 | Rajasthan              | 8,07,06,762  | 2,20,60,085 |
|      31 | Sikkim                 | 11,56,120    | 1,41,000    |
|      32 | Tamil Nadu             | 8,60,87,796  | 2,09,20,120 |
|      33 | Telangana              | 4,35,81,670  | 98,58,540   |
|      34 | Tripura                | 51,25,195    | 6,75,190    |
|      35 | Uttar Pradesh          | 23,88,34,036 | 6,39,15,865 |
|      36 | Uttarakhand            | 1,44,33,694  | 26,05,020   |
|      37 | West Bengal            | 11,30,43,506 | 2,20,98,245 |