SAD: Cong govt minting money from vaccines

Chandigarh, June 3

Alleging a scam in the administration of Covid vaccines in Punjab, the Shiromani Akali Dal today said the state government sold the vaccines at a premium to make profits.

Showing documents to support his claim, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said vaccine doses were being sold to private institutions instead of being given free of cost to the common man. He said a Covaxin dose cost the state Rs 400. It was being sold to private institutions for Rs 1,060. He said the private hospitals were further selling the dose for Rs 1,560. “This amounts to a cost of Rs 6,000 to Rs 9,000 per family for a single dose”. He said in Mohali alone, 35,000 doses were sold to private institutions to earn a profit of nearly Rs 2 crore in a single day. — TNS