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Reliance Vaccinates 98% of Staff as India-wide Rollout Lags

  • Indian companies are speedily vaccinating their employees
  • Meanwhile, several states have complained about shortages
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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Reliance Industries Ltd., the conglomerate helmed by Asia’s richest man, is among large Indian companies that have given at least one Covid-19 shot to most of their employees, a sign the country’s corporate sector is able to speedily vaccinate its workforce while the government has struggled with shortages and logistics.

More than 98% of Reliance workers have received at least one dose, India’s largest company by market value said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Friday. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s retail-to-refining empire had more than 236,300 employees as of March 31.