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Sputnik V Vaccine : Apollo Hospitals To Start Giving From June Second Week , Price Rs 1,195 Per Dose

Apollo Group of Hospitals has announced that it will start administering the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, across its hospitals in India from the second week of June, at an estimated price of Rs 1,195 per dose.

“We will be charging Rs 995 for the vaccine and Rs 200 would be administration charges,” an official of the Apollo Group said. On Thursday, Apollo Hospitals said they will start administering Sputnik V from the second week of June.

In a statement, Executive Vice-chairperson Shobana Kamineni of the Apollo Group of Hospitals said that the group has completed administering one million vaccine doses across 80 locations in India, and will prioritise frontline workers, high-risk population, and corporate employees.

Giving details on ramping up their vaccination programme, Kamineni said, “In June, we will do a million every week and double that in July. We are on track to complete 20 million jabs by September this year.”

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