Corona virus havoc countdown: Corona drug arrival in India? Supreme Court of India discussed 4 vaccines? Know India made a record?
New Delhi / India / Corona virus
Here is the first phase of the vaccine in India, since the corona virus has come to India for its country, small businesses in India have become very few and now the silver coating has gone up due to getting corona medicine all over India. It has come and that too at a time when the whole world is worried, it is expected that the corona virus havoc in India is going to end soon.
Amid tight security, three temperature-controlled trucks rolled out of the Serum Institute gates with their precious cargo shortly before 5 am. The trucks carried 478 boxes of the vaccines, each box weighing 32 kg, news agency PTI reported quoting an unnamed official. A ”puja” was performed, along with the traditional breaking of coconuts, before the vehicles headed out of the facility for the Pune airport.
Ready get set go! Stand by India! The vaccine to kill the disease is being loaded into the aircraft for distribution all over the country now,” Pune airport tweeted.
Civil aviation sector launches yet another momentous mission,” tweeted Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri as the first two flights operated by SpiceJet and GoAir took off with the vaccines to Delhi and Chennai.
“Today, Air India, SpiceJet and IndiGo Airlines will operate nine flights from Pune with 56.5 lakh doses to Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Shillong, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Bengaluru, Lucknow and Chandigarh,” he said in another tweet.
Meanwhile, SpiceJet issued a statement saying that it is fully committed and prepared to transport the Covid vaccine both within and outside India.
We will be carrying multiple vaccine consignments to different Indian cities including Guwahati, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, Patna and Vijayawada through the day today. SpiceJet is fully committed and prepared to transport the Covid vaccine both within and outside India. Today marks the beginning of a long and decisive phase in India’s fight against the pandemic and SpiceJet is proud to assist in the biggest vaccination drive in the history of mankind,” it said.
The vaccines are also being flown out in two cargo flights to Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Kolkata and Guwahati, PTI reported quoting a source.
The consignment for Mumbai will leave by road.
The government has ordered 1.01 crore doses of Covishield and plans to buy a total of 5.60 crore doses by April, at ₹ 200 per dose.