Chennai: Days after the nationwide vaccination drive for Covid-19 commenced, consignments carrying Covishield vaccines have started to roll out from Serum institute, Pune, to few States including Tamil Nadu.
Chennai: Days after the nationwide vaccination drive for Covid-19 commenced, consignments carrying Covishield vaccines have started to roll out from Serum institute, Pune, to few States including Tamil Nadu.
In a fight against COVID-19, parts of the country is now all set to receive Covishield, a vaccine for the Covid-19, developed both by Serum Institute of Virology in Pune and Bharat Bio-tech.
As many as 13 locations, including Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad in the country are oikely to receive the vaccine consignments, today.
State Health Secretary Radhakrishnan, in a press meet said that nearly 5,56,500 Covishield vaccines are likely to be in Chennai on or before 11 am today. Of the 5,56,500 covishield vaccines, Serum Institute of Virology in Pune alone provides 5,36,500 vaccines and Bharat Bio-tech the remaining, he added.
“Once we receive the vaccine at the Chennai airport, we will be sending it across to all the ten regional vaccination sites, from where it will be dispatched to all the ear-marked districts. At present, 51 godowns are ready to store the vaccine with at least four cold chain vehicles in hand. Each cold chain designated vehicle has the ability to store six lakh doses", he added.
Six lakh frontline workers including healthcare experts are to be inoculated in the first phase. Each person will be inoculated twice with the same vaccine. But, however, only four lakh of them have been registered in the app, according to media reports.
India plans to administer vaccines to nearly 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers through massive vaccination, slated to begin from January 16, 2021. Meanwhile, India saw the lowest numbers of Covid-19 since June 2020, recording only 12,584 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
In a fight against COVID-19, parts of the country is now all set to receive Covishield, a vaccine for the Covid-19, developed both by Serum Institute of Virology in Pune and Bharat Bio-tech.
As many as 13 locations, including Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad in the country are oikely to receive the vaccine consignments, today.
State Health Secretary Radhakrishnan, in a press meet said that nearly 5,56,500 Covishield vaccines are likely to be in Chennai on or before 11 am today. Of the 5,56,500 covishield vaccines, Serum Institute of Virology in Pune alone provides 5,36,500 vaccines and Bharat Bio-tech the remaining, he added.
“Once we receive the vaccine at the Chennai airport, we will be sending it across to all the ten regional vaccination sites, from where it will be dispatched to all the ear-marked districts. At present, 51 godowns are ready to store the vaccine with at least four cold chain vehicles in hand. Each cold chain designated vehicle has the ability to store six lakh doses", he added.
Six lakh frontline workers including healthcare experts are to be inoculated in the first phase. Each person will be inoculated twice with the same vaccine. But, however, only four lakh of them have been registered in the app, according to media reports.
India plans to administer vaccines to nearly 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers through massive vaccination, slated to begin from January 16, 2021. Meanwhile, India saw the lowest numbers of Covid-19 since June 2020, recording only 12,584 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.