{"id":6242,"date":"2021-04-24T18:41:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T13:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=6242"},"modified":"2021-04-24T18:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T13:11:18","slug":"vaccines-procured-by-centre-to-be-given-free-of-cost-to-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/04\/24\/vaccines-procured-by-centre-to-be-given-free-of-cost-to-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines Procured by Centre to be Given Free of Cost to States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A day after Chief Ministers raised about price uniformity of the vaccine to be administered from May 1, the health ministry has issued clarification on the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;It is clarified that the Govt of India&#8217;s procurement price for both #COVID19 vaccines remains at Rs 150 per dose. GOI procured doses will continue to be provided TOTALLY FREE to States,&#8221; said a tweet by the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Many Chief Ministers have written to the Prime Minister and Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi had also written to PM Modi expressing concern over different pricing for vaccines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in a meeting with the Prime Minister had urged that vaccines to states should be given at the rates of the Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Provide vaccine availability action plan to the states for operating vaccination campaign for the age group above 18 years soon. Producing states should not obstruct supply of life saving medicines,&#8221; Baghel had said which is mentioned in the statement issued by the state government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had also raised a red flag over separate vaccine prices for Centre and states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after Chief Ministers raised about price uniformity of the vaccine to be administered from May 1, the health ministry has issued clarification on the issue. &#8220;It is clarified that the Govt of India&#8217;s procurement price for both #COVID19 vaccines remains at Rs 150 per dose. GOI procured doses will continue to be provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}