Covaxin Prices Reduced To Rs 400 From Rs 600 Per Dose For States

Bharat Biotech has reduced the price of its Covaxin for state governments from Rs 600 to Rs 400 per dose, the vaccine-maker said in a statement today. The cost of the COVID-19 vaccine for private hospitals is changed at Rs 1,200 per dose. Today's announcement by one of the two companies whose vaccines are allowed in India came a day after the other company, Adar Poonawalla's Serum Institute of India, cut the price of its Covishield from Rs 400 to Rs 300 in what Mr Poonawalla called a "philanthropic gesture". The issue of vaccine pricing has been much debated after the two companies recently put a figure to what they will charge for their products amid the deadly second wave of the pandemic. Opposition party leaders have demanded universal free vaccination.