Jharkhand Refutes Vaccine Wastage Data, Asks Centre To 'Fix' It

Jharkhand sent the letter on Thursday night to set the record right close on the heels of Chief Minister Hemant Soren trashing the centre's vaccine wastage data for Jharkhand.

At loggerheads with the Centre over vaccine wastage data, the Jharkhand government has shot off a letter to the union government seeking rectification of wastage figures, saying CoWIN portal till May 27 erroneously showed state's wastage data at "38.45 per cent", a top official said on Friday. The state sent the letter on Thursday night to set the record right close on the heels of Chief Minister Hemant Soren trashing the centre's vaccine wastage data for Jharkhand. "If wastage figures are rectified on the basis of data attached with the letter sent by us to the centre, the wastage figure will come below 4.63 per cent," A Dodde, state's nodal office for vaccination told PTI. Union Health Ministry in a statement on May 25 had said despite urging states repeatedly to keep vaccine wastage below 1 per cent, many states such as Jharkhand (37.3 per cent) were reporting much higher wastage than the national average (6.3 per cent).