The Centre on Tuesday instructed private vaccination centers to not charge more than ₹780 for Covishield, ₹1,410 for Covaxin and ₹1,145 Sputnik V. The Centre has said that private hospitals can charge up to ₹150 on service charges and state governments will monitor the prices being charged.
The Centre also said that the steps are being taken to put the required validations by the CoWIN portal to make sure that prices declared by several private Covid-19 vaccination centres do not exceed the prices mandated by the government.
In its order, the Centre also highlighted that reset the prices declared by private Covid-19 vaccination centres.
The state governments have been asked to monitor the private hospitals regularly and strict action will be taken against any private vaccination center for charging more.
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