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Kapil Sibal slams Centre for not capping prices of Covid-19 vaccines
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has questioned the silence of the Centre over the capping of the price of Covid-19 vaccines. Speaking to news agency ANI, Sibal lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for leaving it to the states to vaccinate people on their own.
Sibal said that he was surprised that why the Centre is not taking steps to cap the prices of the vaccines.
"If you bring Covishield and Covaxin under Section 3 of the Essential Commodity Act then their prices can be controlled. It is your (government's) responsibility that those who are above 18 years of age should get the vaccine, so why don't you bring the vaccine in it (Essential Commodity Act). If we bring the vaccines under the Act then it will be the responsibility of the central government to fix the price," he said.