May 24, 2021
The State had already placed a purchase order for 1 crore doses of Covid vaccine
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday asked the Centre to inform the court when it could supply the Covid vaccines ordered by the State government.
When a petition challenging the Centre's Liberalised Pricing and Accelerated National Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy and other Covid vaccination related cases came up for hearing, the Bench asked the Centre what was the rationale behind its stand that the State should administer the vaccines free of cost to the people in the age group of 18 to 44 on its own, especially when the Centre did not supply the vaccines for these group free of cost. The court also reminded the Centre that it was not time to talk about federalism.