Odisha govt announces free vaccination for above 18 years of age

The Odisha government has announced free vaccination for people above 18 years of age. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that the State Government will incur an expenditure of two thousand crore rupees to meet the goal.

Ahead of the phase three of the nationwide vaccination drive to be rolled out from the first of May, the state government has geared up to inoculate about 1.93 crore people in the age group of 18 to 44 years. 

Accordingly, it has placed orders before the Serum Institute of



India for supply of 377 lakh doses of Covishield and Bharat Biotech for supply of a little more than 10 lakh doses of Covaxin, while designating Odisha State Medical Corporation Limited as the nodal agency for vaccine procurement.

Meanwhile, the state government has ensured dispatch of medical oxygen to 6 States to meet the shortfall there, while entrusting the task of timely refilling and dispatch of oxygen cylinders to the covid hospitals to the District Drugs Inspectors, back home.