new delhi more than 6309 crore covid19 vaccine doses have so far been provided to the states and union territories by the centre for free and under the direct state procurement category the union health ministry said on mondayfurther more than 2176 lakh 2176930 doses are in the pipeline it addedmore than 487 crore 48739946 balance and unutilised covid19 vaccine doses are still available with the states the ministry saidthe centre is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of covid19 vaccination throughout the country it said adding that the inoculation drive has been ramped up through availability of more vaccines advance visibility of vaccine availability to the states for enabling better planning by them and streamlining the vaccine supply chainas part of the nationwide vaccination drive the centre has been supporting the states by providing them covid vaccines for freein the new phase of the universalisation of the covid vaccination drive the centre will procure and supply 75 per cent of the vaccines being produced by the manufacturers in the country to the states for free