For every 100 vaccine doses that were provided toMadhya Pradesh, it has administered vaccines to at least 104 people, putting the state at 11th position on the national chart.Chhattisgarh tops with 10% ‘negative wastage’, or 110 doses administered per 100 received, according to information provided under RTI Act by the health ministry to Neemuch-based activist Chandrashekhar Gaur.

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In fact, states are squeezing out the maximum from the doses allotted to them a complete turnaround from the initial days when vaccine wastage was a concern. Only five states still figure in the vaccine wastage category Odisha (0.75%), Jammu and Kashmir (0.93%), Manipur (1.54%), Tripura (3.54%) and Meghalaya (3.74%).