To address the issue, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan will be meeting with the health ministers of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Telangana on Wednesday, news agency ANI reported. More than 180 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far as of May 11, as per the data provided by the Union health ministry. State chief secretary Om Prakash said that the state needs one lakh vaccine doses per day, reported ANI. Haryana on Tuesday reported the highest vaccine wastage followed by Assam and Rajasthan. India on Wednesday reported more than 348,000 Covid-19 infections and over 4,200 fatalities in the last 24 hours, as per the ministry's Covid-19 dashboard.

Source: Hindustan Times May 12, 2021 05:48 UTC