Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala State Health Minister Veena George on Friday denied media reports that over one million doses of Covid vaccines are lying unutilised in the state.

In a statement, the new Health Minister said that the news that is currently going around that Kerala has not utilised one million doses of Covid vaccines was not genuine.  She said, "Anyone who goes through the figures of vaccine stock available with the state can easily find out the real truth. As on date there are 4.5 lakh doses available with the state. On an average daily around 2.5 lakh vaccines are given and as such, the present stock will dry up in two days." She also  said that in the recent past the state received the maximum doses on the 15th, 16th and 17th of this month.

She went on to say, "In these three days we received 11,99,530 doses and during the period from 16th to 22nd around 13,47,811 people received their jabs. So with this being the actual situation there is no basis to say one million doses are unutilised, adding that "Kerala has also done extremely well in not wasting a single dose as we have been able to even utilise the extra dose which comes with every batch," She and wanted the Centre to see that fresh supply of vaccines was made available at the earliest.

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