A truck transports vaccines from SII to Pune airport on Tuesday to be flown to different states
MUMBAI/PUNE: Mumbai will receive its first consignment of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pune early on Wednesday, officials said. The BMC is expected to get around 1.4 lakh doses to immunise the 1.3 lakh registered healthcare workers in the city in the first round.
Maharashtra has been allocated 9.63 lakh Covishield vaccine doses manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII) and 20,000 doses of Covaxin from Bharat Biotech for the priority vaccination drive that will commence on January 16, according to a communication from the Central government to state health authorities.
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MUMBAI: The city s 1.25 lakh healthcare workers will be administered a Covid-19 vaccine at eight centres in a span of 15-20 days, the BMC said after the first meeting of the vaccine task force was held on Friday. Preliminary plans are to vaccinate a minimum of 10,000 health personnel every day, with each centre working in two shifts.
Maharashtra has informed the Centre that it has the capacity to store 3 crore vaccine doses in cold storage, National Health Mission commissioner N Ramaswami told TOI. Till Friday, the state had uploaded data of nearly 1.91 lakh healthcare workers on the government application, CoWin, for priority vaccination.