The government has capped vaccine prices for private hospitals
The UBS Securities India report also called for more transparent vaccine distribution plan for efficient vaccine allocation to the states
The Supreme Court said leaving the state governments to negotiate directly with manufacturers will produce chaos and uncertainty
Earlier in April, Pfizer said that it had offered a not-for-profit price for its vaccine for the government immunisation programme in India
The government will make efforts to speed up vaccine purchase and administering it to the people, he said
The company said during the pandemic phase it will supply the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine only through government contracts