New Delhi: Bharat Biotech has supplied over 2.75 crores doses of covaxin to central government and states/UTs have a balance of over 55 lakhs doses as on Friday, the union health ministry said.Amidst reports of shortage of covaxin across states, the central government said that current production capacity of indigenously developed Covaxin vaccine will be doubled by May-June 2021 and then increased nearly 6-7 folds by July - August 2021 i.e.
increasing the production from 1 crore vaccine doses in April, 2021 to 6-7 crore vaccine doses month in July – August. It is expected to reach nearly 10 crore doses per month by September 2021.“As of data compiled on 28thMay 2021 morning, Bharat Biotech has supplied 2,76,66,860 vaccine doses to Govt.