Chhattisgarh is ensuring optimum use of vaccines and the wastage of doses is far below the national average, the government said on Friday.
The Health Department said that as against 797,110 doses made available to the state for the 18-44 age group, 666,101 persons have been immunized so far.
The process of vaccinating 125,970 persons is on and only 5,039 doses got wasted, it said in a statement. The percentage wastage was 0.6 percent, far below the national average of 2 percent.
Similarly, for age group above 45 years, 68,640,210 doses were made available and 61,67632 persons have been vaccinated. A total of 616,970 doses are left. The wastage in this age group was 56,608 doses or 0.8 percent, the statement said.