Prices of COVID–19 vaccines are expected to fall further as the Indian markets open up to multiple companies offering competitive pricing, said Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday at a press conference. He cautioned that while the infection is under control in India, it hasn’t been wiped out and noted that there is a week–on–week increase in cases from some parts of the world including China.
“In India the whole government and society supported the country in the management of Covid-19 across multiple surges and currently our average daily cases [week ending April 12) is as low as 1,013 with 796 cases reported in the last 24 hours,’’ said the Minister.
The Minister said there is no need to panic about the Omicron XE variant. He said the Central government has supplied 16.24 crore doses of vaccine to 99 countries as on February 14 and offered Co-WIN platform as a digital global good to all the countries.
