The government has decided to inoculate 35 lakh people, instead of 60 lakh, against Covid-19 in the first month of vaccination apparently due to a lukewarm response to online registration.
With the mass inoculation scheduled to start on Sunday, around 80,000 frontline workers from different professional groups and people over 55 completed the registration online till yesterday, according to official data.
It is only 2.29 percent of the revised target of 35 lakh doses.
Meanwhile, the country is expected to receive 12.8 million vaccine doses under the Covax programme by mid-2021, according to a statement.
The Covax programme for Covid-19 vaccines published its first distribution list yesterday, planning enough doses for dozens of countries, to immunise more than three percent of their populations by mid-year. It broke down for the first time how the programme's initial 337.2 million doses will be distributed, with first deliveries expected late this month, AFP reported.