Precious cargo! 3 trucks carrying Covishield vaccine leave Pune s Serum Institute, hours after govt seals deal
The first consignment of Covishield vaccines left the Serum Institute of India premises in Pune in the wee hours on Tuesday ahead of the January 16 nationwide inoculation drive launch, marking a decisive phase in the fight against coronavirus.
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UPDATED: January 12, 2021 08:32 IST
The trucks carried 478 boxes of the vaccines and each box weighs 32 kg. (Photo: ANI)
Four days before India begins the mass exercise of vaccinating 30 crore people against Covid-19, three trucks from Pune s Serum Institute left with the first consignment of the Covishield vaccine in the early hours of Tuesday.
The private facilities used as Covid-19 vaccination centres by the Delhi government will receive their share of doses on the day of inoculation while it will be given to the public facilities a day before, officials told IANS.Suneela Garg, a .
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The first stage of the rollout of the vaccines against the coronavirus began on Tuesday with Serum Institute of India - the manufacturer of Oxford University s Covishield - shipping out its first lot of vials. The Union Health Ministry, in a press conference today, said the inoculation programme, billed as the world s largest, is on track. It explained the vaccination drive in numbers.
According to the Health Ministry, 110 lakh doses of Covishield are being procured at Rs 200 per dose (excluding taxes). 55 lakh doses of Covaxin developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech are also being procured. Both these vaccines have been approved by the country s drug regulator for restricted emergency use.
Telangana received the first consignment of 3.72 lakh doses of Covishield, Covid vaccine by the Serum Institute, Pune to the State Vaccine center, DMH, Koti Hyderabad on Tuesday. May all be free from disease with this slogan printed on each box, the shipment of Serum Institute of India’s Covishield set out from Pune to other parts of India on Tuesday morning, kickstarting the biggest rollout of a vaccine in the country’s history.
Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad, the four major regional depots for Covid-19 vaccines, received their quantum of Covishield doses within 10 hours since their dispatch began from the SII premises at 4.30am on Tuesday. Overall, 55 lakh of the total 1.1 crore doses were dispatched from the SII premises till 5pm on Tuesday, officials confirmed. The transport exercise for the remaining doses will continue till Wednesday evening, a senior SII official said.
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Software forms core of vaccine administration
The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) held an online conference on Sunday with administrators from States and Union Territories on the CoWIN software which forms the backbone of the last mile COVID vaccine administration.
The meeting was chaired by Ram Sewak Sharma, Chairman of the empowered group on Technology and Data Management to combat COVID-19 and member of the national expert group on vaccine administration of COVID-19. Participants included State principal secretaries, directors of the National Health Mission, State immunisation officers and senior officers of the Health Ministry.