Supply Enough Doses To Inoculate Madhya Pradesh's Entire Adult Population: Court To Centre

The second dose can also be administered as per the priorities fixed with reference to people already vaccinated with the first dose, the bench said.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has asked the Centre to supply enough COVID-19 vaccines to the state to ensure that the entire adult population in the region gets at least one dose by September end. The division bench of Chief Justice Mohammed Rafiq and Justice Satyendra Kumar Singh made the observation on Monday while hearing in a suo motu case about the state government's preparedness in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, senior advocate Naman Nagrath told PTI on Thursday. "This court in this connection requires the Central government to ensure supply of vaccines in sufficient quantity to Madhya Pradesh, keeping in view the required demand of 1.5 crore vaccines per month regularly, so that the target of vaccination of the first dose to all people in the 18 plus population in the state is achieved by the end of September," the bench said. The second dose can also be administered as per the priorities fixed with reference to people already vaccinated with the first dose, it stated.