Serum Institute of India is supplying Covishield to the Centre for Rs 150 a dose while to states for Rs 300 a dose. Private Hospitals are getting it at double the state's price at Rs 600.
Anurag Thakur's remarks came in response to Mallikarjun Kharge's letter to PM Narendra Modi urging him to use Rs 35,000 crore allocated in the Union Budget to ensure free vaccine.
COVID-19 vaccines for people in the 18-44 age group in Bengaluru, which has almost half the number of cases and deaths in Karnataka, would be available from May10
Seventy percent of the available stock of Covishield in Karnataka would be utilized to vaccinate people above 45 years of age due for second dose
More than 90 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs and they will receive over 10 lakh more vaccine doses within the next three days
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PIL in the Delhi High Court on Friday urged it to direct the Centre and Delhi government to vaccinate all class 10 and 12 students who would be appearing for board exams in the 2020-21 session.
The findings are based on 280,000 people aged 18-65 who received a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, known as Covishield in India, from February 2021 through to 11 March 2021 in Denmark and Norway.
The US has joined calls for more sharing of the technology behind Covid-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic.
Kapil Sibal said that he was surprised that why the Centre is not taking steps to cap the prices of the vaccines.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews on May 3, was conducted on employees of the Fortis Centre of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology in Delhi.
Reliance General is offering one time five per cent discount to customers taken the Covid-19 vaccination.
The Uttar Pradesh government has said that journalists should be allotted separate centres for vaccination, adding that arrangements should also be made at their workplace if required.
Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla has issued a statement regarding vaccine availability in the country and ramping up its production. SII issued Poonawalla's statement after some of his comments on vaccine production were misinterpreted.
The third and the largest phase of vaccination will begin in Delhi on Monday. People in the 18-45 age group will be given jabs against coronavirus. Around 90 lakh people in this category will be eligible for the jabs.
Delhi government has placed orders for 1.34 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses with manufactures. The target is to inoculate all adults in three months.
Although the vaccination drive for 18+ category started on May 1, several states have expressed the inability to inoculate those eligible due to a shortage of vaccine.
Serum Institute of India CEO Aadar Poonawalla has said that the production of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield is in full swing in Pune and he will review the operations once he is back in the country.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that no vaccination will be done for 18+ category in the national capital on May 1.
BMC has said that no vaccination against Covid-19 will be held in Mumbai for the three days -- Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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