India
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, Jan 12: Ahead of nationwide mega vaccine rollout from January 16, India’s first consignment of Covid vaccine “‘Covidshield” was transported from Pune to 13 locations across the country on Tuesday.
The first 100 million doses of the vaccine has been provided to the government at the cost of Rs 200 per dose.
On January 3, Covishield, along with Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, were approved for restricted emergency use by the Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI).
Delhi
The first consignment of Covishield vaccines reached Delhi from Pune on Tuesday, four days ahead of the launch of a nationwide drive against the coronaviru
A SpiceJet flight carrying the vaccines landed at the Delhi airport around 10 am. It had left for the national capital around 8 am, three hours after three trucks with the maiden consignment of the vaccines rolled out of the Serum Institute of…