Urging the government to provide incentives to vaccine manufacturers to increase the production of COVID-19 vaccines in the country, industry body FICCI has suggested financing vaccine makers under a production linked incentive (PLI) type scheme to support the

FICCI, on behalf of the industry, has assured its complete support to the government for battling together against this unprecedented crisis and keeping the economy from being adversely impacted, the statement said.

Noting that there is an urgent and critical need to encourage vaccine manufacturers to substantially augment their capacities for production, it said:

"Since the cost of vaccines has been capped by the government, the vaccine manufacturers need to be provided with appropriate incentives for ramping up the production." It also said that many states have been facing the shortage of Covid vaccines over the past few days, including locations in Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar, compelling state governments to scale down their daily vaccination targets.

India intends to vaccinate the priority population of 30 crore by August 2021. Given that 10.85 crore people have received at least the first dose of COVID vaccination and going with the current rate of 30 lakh vaccinations per day, there is a need for more than 38 crore doses, of two dose vaccines, to fully vaccinate this priority group, FICCI said.

Telangana : 1,30,531 individuals vaccinate in 1336 vaccination centres in single day

India will get one more corona vaccine, trial of HGCO-19 to begin soon

85 crore doses of Sputnik-V to be prepared every year in India