Also Read | Vaccination drive picks up slowly“The existing cold storage facilities under the Universal Immunization Programme have been further strengthened and are being used for storing Covid-19 vaccine.
The available storage space is sufficient to store Covid-19 vaccines already supplied to States/UTs," Choubey said.The Covid-19 vaccination drive was rolled out in the country on 16 January and is being carried out in a phased manner, starting with prioritised groups of health care workers and frontline workers.The cumulative number of healthcare workers vaccinated against Covid-19 has reached nearly 53 lakhs through 1,04,781 sessions, as per the provisional report released by the union health ministry on Friday.At least 3,31,029.