The vaccine will be first administered to the registered 6.6 lakh healthcare workers apart from other frontline workers
Karnataka on Tuesday finally received its first consignment of COVID-19 vaccine. The consignment comprising 54 boxes of 6.47 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine reached Bengaluru airport by Spicejet airlines around 11.40 a.m.
The vaccine consignment weighing 1,728 kgs was received by a team of officials comprising Bengaluru Urban District Health Officer (DHO) Srinivas Golur and other health department officials in charge of the State vaccine store in Bengaluru.
The consignment was then transported to the State vaccine store on the premises of the Health Department’s old building near Anand Rao circle in a refrigerated vaccine truck.
Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said although the State was expecting 11.34 lakh doses in the first consignment, it is getting 7.95 lakh doses as of now. “The remaining will arrive soon and we will inform the…