Zydus starts supplying coronavirus vaccine ZyCoV-D from Ahmedabad facility

A couple of months after receiving the order, Zydus on Wednesday started supplying its COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D to the government.

Being manufactured at its newly commissioned state-of-the-art, Zydus Vaccine Technology Excellence Centre at the Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad, ZyCoV-D is one of the first plasmid DNA vaccines administered intradermally using a painless needle-free system in three doses.

The group had received an order from the government to supply 10 million doses of ZyCoV-D in November 2021.

The vaccine will be priced at Rs 265 per dose while the PharmaJet needle free system Tropis applicator will be offered at Rs 93 per dose,