Booster Dose Price: Corona vaccine maker Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech have today informed about the decision to cut the price of precaution dose.
Booster Dose Price: Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech, two giant companies making corona vaccine, have today informed about the decision to cut the price of precaution dosage. From tomorrow (April 10) any person of 18 years of age and above will be able to get a booster dose in private vaccination centers. A day before this, the Serum Institute said that after talks with the government, it has been decided to reduce the price of the vaccine for private hospitals to Rs 225 per dose.
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Today’s decision made such a difference
On Friday, the Serum Institute had said that the cost of a booster dose of its Kovidshield vaccine would be kept at Rs 600 per shot. At the same time, today the company has reduced it to Rs 225. The company’s CEO Adar Poonawalla has given this information by tweeting.
On the other hand, Bharat Biotech’s Co-Founder Joint MD Suchitra Illa expressed happiness over the decision to make booster doses available to all adults and said that after talks with the central government, the cost of booster doses of Covaccine has been reduced from Rs 1200 to Rs 225 per dose. has been decided to do.
Booster dose will be done from Sunday
From tomorrow, any person above the age of 18 years can get the third dose of COVID vaccine at his nearest private vaccination center. This vaccine or booster dose can be administered by all those people 18 years of age or older, who have at least 9 months have passed since the second dose of the vaccine. That is, if you have got the second dose of the vaccine recently or it has not completed nine months, then you do not have to get the booster dose yet. So far, the third dose of the vaccine has been administered to health workers, frontline workers and more than 6.4 crore people aged 60 years and above.
Covid Vaccine: Now people of 18 years of age or above will also be able to get the third dose of vaccine, but this facility will be available only at private centers