The government of India has so far provided more than 17.15 crore vaccine doses to states/UTs free of cost, says the Centre while adding that more than 89 lakh doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.
The Centre has also said that over 28 lakh more vaccine doses will be received by the states/UTs in the next three days.
Meanwhile , the new coronavirus cases and deaths in India hit a record daily high with 4,12,262 new infections and 3,980 fatalities being reported, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,10,77,410 and the death toll to 2,30,168, according to the Union health ministry data.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 29,67,75,209 samples have been tested up to May 5 with 19,23,131 samples being tested on Wednesday.
