{"id":331795,"date":"2021-04-28T07:31:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331795"},"modified":"2021-04-28T07:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:12:31","slug":"covishield-now-to-be-sold-at-rs-300-sii-cuts-price-for-state-govts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covishield-now-to-be-sold-at-rs-300-sii-cuts-price-for-state-govts\/","title":{"rendered":"Covishield now to be sold at Rs 300, SII cuts price for state govts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331799\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/c54b94558a51b4d2134203fa6dfda743.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/c54b94558a51b4d2134203fa6dfda743.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/c54b94558a51b4d2134203fa6dfda743-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/c54b94558a51b4d2134203fa6dfda743-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/c54b94558a51b4d2134203fa6dfda743-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/c54b94558a51b4d2134203fa6dfda743-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/c54b94558a51b4d2134203fa6dfda743-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/c54b94558a51b4d2134203fa6dfda743-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>The Serum Institute of India (SII) announced that it has decided to reduce the price of its Covishield vaccine against COVID-19 by 25 percent for state governments as a philanthropic gesture.<\/p>\n<p>The state governments can now procure the Covishield vaccine at Rs 300, after the reduction in price for the third phase of the vaccination drive against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a philanthropic gesture on behalf of Serum Institute of India, I hereby reduce the price to the states from Rs.400 to Rs.300 per dose, effective immediately&#8221;, SII Chairman Adar Poonawalla said today.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the SII had announced that it will sell its Covishield vaccine at Rs 400 to state governments across the country for the third phase of India&#8217;s vaccination drive beginning from May 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serum Institute of India (SII) announced that it has decided to reduce the price of its Covishield vaccine against COVID-19 by 25 percent for state governments as a philanthropic gesture. The state governments can now procure the Covishield vaccine at Rs 300, after the reduction in price for the third phase of the vaccination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[14159,13845,14158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331800,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331795\/revisions\/331800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}