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Health care, the foremost agendum of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech, saw an allocation of Rs 223,846 crore an increase of around 118 per cent over the Revised Estimate to cover “health and wellbeing” with a large chunk, Rs 35,000 crore, going towards Covid-19 vaccination, a move widely cheered by the industry. “The investment in health infrastructure in this Budget has increased substantially. Progressively, as institutions absorb more, we shall commit more,” the finance minister said. Adar Poonawalla of Serum Institute of India, the maker of Covishield vaccine, said the allocation would not be able to cover the entire population. “However, it can cover vulnerable sections of the population at least.”