Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the state has sought additional stocks of Covaxin for providing precautionary or booster dose to co-morbid people aged above 60, health and frontline workers.

Tope, who participated in a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the country, later told reporters that the state has sought 40 lakh doses of Covaxin. As per the Centre's guidelines, the home-grown vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech is the only one which is to be administered to teenagers in the 15 to 18 age group.