₹150 as a service charge per dose over the fixed price of the vaccine, the PM had said. The health minister had stated that the maximum price that can be charged per dose by private vaccine centres for the three vaccines currently available in the country - ₹780 for Covishield, ₹1,410 for Covaxin and ₹1,145 for Sputnik V.
Before the Centre's takeover, it was the responsibility of state governments to procure and administer 50 per cent of the vaccines for citizens between the ages of 18 to 45.
The Centre supplied free of cost vaccines to people aged 45 and above.This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.