Read more about Mumbai airport facilitates delivery of over 2.9 mn Covishield doses on Business Standard. Mumbai airport said it has facilitated cumulative delivery across 25 destinations in the country since Wednesday
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Mumbai airport has also begun transporting the COVID-19 vaccine to Goa
Nearly 2,400 vials of Covishield are being airlifted to Goa
Mumbai: Maharashtra Health Department on Wednesday said that a total of 9.63-lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield have been received for Maharashtra from the Serum Institute of India. All doses were received by the Health Department at Pune last night and from there they were distributed to different cities/districts of the state, the state s Health Department said.
Total 9.63-lakh doses have been received for Maharashtra from Serum Institute of India. All doses were received by Health Dept at Pune last night and from there they were distributed to different cities/districts of the state: Maharashtra Health Department #Covishield
Vaccine drive accelerates, doses reach far corners of India
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Last Updated: Jan 13, 2021, 05:56 PM IST
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From Assam to Goa and from Jammu and Kashmir to Kerala, the vaccines were carefully and swiftly transported to far corners of the country, a day after the first consignment of the Covishield vaccine from the Oxford/AstraZeneca stable rolled out of the Serum Institute of India manufacturing facility in Pune.
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New Delhi: India s drive against COVID-19 gathered momentum on Wednesday with planes carrying vaccines flying into airports across the country from where the precious cargo was dispatched to small cities and towns in readiness for the inoculation exercise beginning January 16.
The Union health ministry was also quoted as saying that Modi is likely to launch the Co-WIN app, and interact with vaccine beneficiaries across the country