The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has been directed to start working towards capping the price to make the vaccines affordable, sources said.
The price of Covishield and Covaxin, the Covid vaccines which are expected to soon get regular market approval from India's drug regulator, is likely to be capped at Rs 275 per dose plus an additional service charge of Rs 150, official sources said.
The world s biggest vaccine maker exported 137,500 doses of Covovax, as it calls the shot, to the Southeast Asian country last week., , Serum Institue, Serum Institue of India