Found selling Covaxin to pvt hospitals, Punjab govt now wants doses returned

Saturday, 5 June 2021Newsdesk

Cornered over selling Covid vaccines to private hospitals at a profit, the Punjab government on Friday ordered that the doses be returned with immediate effect.

New Delhi, 5 June 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, the government had sold 42,000 doses of Covaxin — out of the 1.14 lakh it bought on May 27 from Bharat Biotech at Rs 420 per dose — to over 20 private hospitals for Rs 1,060 each. The hospitals had, in turn, charged recipients Rs 1,560 for a dose. The government had thus made a profit of Rs 5.28 crore — buying the vaccines for Rs 3.20 crore, and selling them for Rs 8.48 crore.

Source -indianexpress.com