The price of Bharat Biotech's intranasal corona vaccine iNCOVACC, given through the nose, has been fixed. According to the Government of India, the cost of one dose in private hospitals will be Rs.800. Apart from this, five percent GST will also have to be paid. According to the report, private hospitals are also allowed to levy an administrative charge of Rs 150 for a single dose. In this way, the cost of one dose of this vaccine will be around 1000 rupees at present. At the same time, the cost of this vaccine will be Rs.325 in government hospitals. Let us inform that Bharat Biotech's intranasal vaccine iNCOVACC was included in the corona vaccination program only last week.

Available by the end of January, the intranasal vaccine was previously approved as a booster shot for people fully vaccinated with Covaxin or Covishield. According to the report, by the end of January it will be available for those who have taken both the doses of the corona vaccine.   

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had said on Friday that the Central Government has approved the inclusion of iNCOVACC in the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. He also said that initially the vaccine would be available in private hospitals and would be added to the CoWin app.

Bharat Biotech has prepared this nasal vaccine in collaboration with the University of Washington. According to Dr. Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Biotech, 'Incovac' is effective against Kovid. It provides mucocell immunity against COVID-19. Dr. Ella told that through this vaccine, we have developed such a Covid immune system, which is not even in America. This nasal vaccine provides IgA mucosal immunity. Let me tell you, Omicron's new variant BF.7 is in bad shape in China. Millions of people are getting infected and thousands of deaths are taking place. There is news of an increase in the cases of Kovid in Brazil and America.