Thiruvananthapuram Spontaneous response to a resource mobilisation drive that originated on the social media to meet the cost of vaccines has encouraged the government to institutionalise it as an official scheme. As soon as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced at his Covid briefing on Thursday Kerala would procure the vaccines directly from manufacturers to avoid delays, contributions began to pour in to the CMâs Relief Fund. Vijayan had stated money would be a problem, but the state government was going to spend it any way and hoped the Centre would reimburse the expenses. It is estimated direct purchase from the manufacturers for the additional quantities would cost about Rs2,600 crore.