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1,000 doses of Covishield vaccine found frozen, damaged at cold storage in Assam
1,000 doses of Covishield vaccine found frozen, damaged at cold storage in Assam
Around 1,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine were found damaged at the Silchar Medical College & Hospital (SMCH) in Assam’s Cachar district. The vaccine doses were found lying frozen in the vaccine store unit of SMCH.
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UPDATED: January 20, 2021 10:46 IST
Around 1,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine were found damaged at the Silchar Medical College & Hospital (SMCH).
Around 1,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine were found damaged at the Silchar Medical College & Hospital (SMCH) in Assam’s Cachar district. The vaccine doses were found lying frozen in the vaccine store unit of SMCH.
Govt prepares storages for keeping corona vaccine
The government has made arrangements to keep coroanvirus vaccine as a consignment of two million of the Oxfrod-Astrazeneca vaccine will arrive on Thursday as gift from the Indian government.
At the same time, the government also is preparing storages to keep more five million Covishield vaccine purchased from Serum Institute of India which may arrive in the country by January 26.
Prof Dr ABM Khurshid Alam, director general of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Tuesday said the government has prepared three alternative storages for keeping the vaccines.
“EPI’s headquarters, EPI repository at Tejgaon and Cental Medical Store Dept (CMSD) have been prepared to store the vaccines,” he said.
City all set for first day of inoculation drive
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First dose of vaccine to be administered to 100 persons each at 81 sites
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Red carpet being laid out at the vaccination site in Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi on Friday.
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First dose of vaccine to be administered to 100 persons each at 81 sites
From showering flower petals on vaccine boxes reaching the hospitals to posters reading “COVID-19 vaccine is safe” and a hand-picked list of 100 persons who would be administered the first dose at each of the 81 sites, Delhi is all geared up for Saturday, the first day of the vaccine roll-out.
First shipment of vaccine to arrive on Jan 25-26
Govt may allow pvt companies to import, distribute vaccines Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
The first consignment of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, produced by Serum Institute of India, will arrive in the country on January 25 or 26, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.
He also said the government is likely to allow private companies to import and distribute Covid vaccines.
The minister was talking to journalists at his Secretariat office after a meeting with the cabinet secretary-led committee on vaccination campaign. We have been informed by Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd that the first consignment of vaccine will arrive in the country on January 25 or 26. We have made arrangements to transport those…