The central government’s current vaccination strategy allocates 25 per cent of doses produced in India to the private sector. A TOI analysis of actual vaccination trends so far, however, shows that even in some of the biggest cities, private vaccination centres do not account for a quarter or more of the doses administered, and in rural areas of the same states they account for less than 5 per cent. To understand the share of private centres in vaccines administered so far, TOI downloaded data of over nine thousand vaccination centres in the eight largest cities and the most rural districts in the corresponding states. The centres were then separated into private and government-run. The data is as of 7am on Sunday morning. The data shows that in the eight rural districts taken into account, private vaccination centres accounted for 0 to 3 per cent of the doses administered in six districts. In the remaining two, both in Maharashtra, they accounted for just over 5 per cent. Clearly, rural India, where over 65 per cent of the population still lives, according to census projections, is almost entirely dependent on government vaccination centres.