Lahore, 22nd March, 5:00 PM: India has ordered 12 crores more doses of the coronavirus vaccines, the Covishield and Covaxin at a cheaper price.
Baaghi TV: According to reports, India has ordered 10 crore doses of Covishield and 2 crores of Covaxin at a cheaper price of Rs 150 per dose with taxes, a significant reduction from the earlier Rs 210 per dose with taxes.
According to reports from India’s publication Print, deliveries will start towards the end of this month.
As per reports, the first one crore doses of Covishield which is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), will start coming in tranches of 20 lakh doses from March 27 per day.
Sources say that over 7.5 crore vaccines have already been distributed to states of which less than 4 crores (3,93,39,817) have been used so far.
The Centre has already written to high mortality states such as Maharashtra and Punjab to step up vaccination.
Senior officials have reported that the average vaccinations per day for a big state is about 2 lakh but it varies. For example, on Thursday, Uttar Pradesh crossed a milestone of the 4 lakh a day vaccinations.
It is to be noted that till 19 March India had sent out 5.96 crore doses of vaccine to foreign nations, which is almost 50 per cent more than its domestic consumption.
According to Indian media reports, about 47,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported in India in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of cases reported in a single day since its inception.
The total number of coronavirus cases has crossed 11.646 million in India where 160,000 people have died from the virus while more than 11.1 million people have recovered so far.
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