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India to buy 10 mn doses of Zydus Cadila's Covid vaccine at Rs 265 per dose

The vaccine is administered using a needle-free applicator as opposed to traditional syringes

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2 min read Last Updated : Nov 08 2021 | 5:47 PM IST

Drug firm Zydus Cadila on Monday said it has received an order to supply 10 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D, to the Indian government at Rs 265 per dose.

"Zydus Cadila has received an order to supply one crore doses of ZyCoV-D, the world's first Plasmid DNA Vaccine, to the Government of India at Rs 265 per dose and the needle-free applicator being offered at Rs 93 per dose, excluding GST," the pharma firm said in a regulatory filing

The pricing has been decided in consultation with the central government, it added.

The vaccine will be administered using a needle-free applicator

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

Topics : Coronavirus Coronavirus Vaccine

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