Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singh Deo on Wednesday rejected the Centre’s claim that the state was reporting a high wastage of Covid-19 vaccines. Singh Deo said the Centre created a new portal and was gathering data directly from vaccination centres and not the state government. “There is delay from vaccination centres in providing data which the Centre is calling vaccine wastage,” he told news agency ANI. Data from the Union health ministry on Wednesday showed that Chhattisgarh reported 30.2% vaccine wastage, which is much higher than the national average of 6.3%. States such as Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh also saw vaccine wastage in double figures, the ministry’s data added.

Source: Hindustan Times May 26, 2021 15:11 UTC