COVID-19 Daily Updates

Covishield vaccine to be sold for Rs 1000 in private markets: Adar Poonawalla

January 12, 2021, 3:53 PM

Sneha Shah | New Delhi

Adar Poonawalla

Adar Poonawalla

CEO and Owner of Serum Institute of India (SII) Adar Poonawalla, on Tuesday, said that SII gave a special price of Rs 200 for the first 100 million doses of Covishield to the government, in order to support common man, vulnerable, poor and healthcare workers.

After the 100 million doses, SII would sell the doses at a very reasonable price to the government. However, the doses would charge Rs 1000 in private markets.

We?ve given special price of Rs 200 for the first 100 million doses only to government of India on their request, that we want to support common man, vulnerable, poor, healthcare workers. After that we’ll be selling it at Rs 1000 in private markets, Poonawalla said in a statement.

To government of India, we will still maintain a very reasonable price but it will be a little bit more than Rs 200, which is our cost price. So we decided not to make any profit, we wanted to support the nation and government for the first 100 million doses, Poonawalla was quoted as saying by ANI.

The statement came on the day when 56.5 lakh doses of Covishield would be transported from Pune Airport to 13 cities across the country including- Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Shillong, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Bengaluru, Lucknow and Chandigarh.

This is a historical moment that vaccine is being dispatched from our factory. Our main challenge is to bring it to everyone in the country. It is our challenge for 2021, let’s see how it happens, he said.

Poonawalla also said that SII would try to supply vaccine to Africa and South America.

A lot of countries have been writing to India and Prime Minister Narendra for vaccines to be supplied from SII to their countries. We’re trying to keep everyone happy. We’ve to take care of our population and nation as well, he said.

We’re trying to supply vaccine to Africa, South America. So we’re doing a little bit everywhere. So we’ll try to keep everyone happy.

Also read : Process of transporting 1st batch of Covishield vaccine to 13 cities begins today

We make 70-80 million doses every month. Planning is underway to see how many will be given to India and foreign countries. Health Ministry has made logistics plans. We also have partnership with private players for trucks, vans and cold storage, he further added.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

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