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Kolkata: The Covid vaccine, believed to be the weapon against the novel coronavirus, matched the stature of VIPs as its cavalcade travelled across the city on Thursday. Usually, 20 to 22 pilot cars are requisitioned from the police department for VIP movement in Kolkata. With the election ahead, the number at times climbs up to 30. But on Thursday, there was an additional request for seven more pilot cars, four of which were used to escort 93,500 doses of Covid-19 shots from Central Family Welfare Stores in Bagbazar to government hospitals—SSKM, NRS, MCH, RG Kar, CNMCH and Chittaranjan Seva Sadan —across the city. Senior cops, who relied on the pilot cars to execute the distribution seamlessly, said they could not remember another such instance, where escort vehicles were used for dissemination of vaccines. “Right now, the importance of the vaccine is no less than that of a VIP,” an IPS officer said.