On April 2, the reporter learned from the National Medical Insurance Administration that China has vaccinated 3.2 billion doses of vaccines, and the cost of vaccines is more than 120 billion yuan.

  It is understood that in February 2021, the state officially launched the free vaccination of residents with the new coronavirus vaccine. The cost of vaccine procurement and vaccination is mainly borne by the medical insurance fund and finance. The round will reduce the purchase price of inactivated vaccines to no more than 90 yuan per dose, which is generally lower than the international price supplied by enterprises.

Afterwards, we negotiated with the company many times, and pushed the company to continuously reduce the price, which has been reduced to about 40 yuan/dose and 20 yuan/dose.

At the same time, cooperate with relevant departments to coordinate vaccine production enterprises with strong production capacity and large supply to provide 600 million doses of vaccines free of charge.

  Recently, the National Medical Insurance Bureau has once again organized negotiations with enterprises, and the new negotiated price has been reduced to a lower level.

In the next step, the National Medical Insurance Administration will continue to do a good job in ensuring the corresponding expenses in accordance with the needs of epidemic prevention and control, and serve the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control.

(Reporter Wen Mengxin)

Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]