Covid 19 vaccination India: The very first batch of India’s indigenous Covid vaccine Covaxin of Bharat Biotech has reached 11 cities across India which includes Delhi, Bengaluru, and Chennai. This distribution of Covaxin started a day immediately after Serum Institute of India’s version of Oxford Covid-19 vaccine Covishield was transported to numerous areas across India. Along with Covishield, Covaxin will be component of India’s huge Covid vaccination drive.
The very first batch of Covaxin was transported from Hyderabad and flown to Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Andhra Pradesh’s Gannavaram, Haryana’s Kurukshetra, Patna, Guwahati, Jaipur, Pune, Bhubaneswar, and Lucknow.
From Hyderabad, the very first batch of Covaxin reached Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Wednesday morning. Three boxes of Covaxin vaccine reached Delhi airport on an Air India flight. Subsequently, 4 boxes of Covaxin have been transported via Vistara flight. Delhi International Airport Ltd has disclosed 3 boxes that came by way of Air India flight have been meant for Haryana’s Kurukshetra and the 4 boxes on the Vistara flights have been for Delhi.
In Delhi, 20,000 doses of Bharat Biotech have reached Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality hospital (RGSSH). There are 4 boxes and every a single consists of 250 vials. Each vial has 20 doses of Covaxin of 10 ml, RGSSH spokesperson Dr Chhavi Gupta says adding that the important process of transportation of the Covaxin vaccines has commenced and it would attain the respective centres, as per an Indian Express report.
Boxes of Covaxin reached Vijayawada, Pune, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, and Patna via IndiGo. Spicejet transported 3 boxes of Covaxin to Bengaluru. Three boxes of Covaxin are reaching Delhi and these will be taken to Lucknow.
While the central government is but to disclose the precise break-up of the quantity of Covishield and Covaxin Covid vaccines kept for states and Union Territories, the Union Ministry of Health mentioned that the initial procurement of 1.65 crore doses of Covaxin and Covishield have been allocated to all states and UTs.
Covaxin value
Earlier, the Central government had stated that a acquire agreement has been carried out with Bharat biotech for procurement of 55 lakh doses of Covaxin. The central government has mentioned that out of the total the price of 38.5 lakh doses of Covaxin stood at Rs 295 per dose, excluding taxes. However, Bharat Biotech is supplying 16.5 lakh doses of Covaxin cost-free of price to the Government of India. This will lead to the price of a single dose of Covaxin to Rs 206.