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Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh receive fresh stock of COVID-19 vaccines ANI | Updated: May 09, 2021 10:54 IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 8 (ANI): As states are conducting large-scale vaccination drives against coronavirus, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have received fresh stocks of COVID-19 vaccines.
Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar informed that the state received 3.5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine on Saturday night, while Andhra Pradesh government said that they have received 3.60 lakh doses of the same on Sunday.
Karnataka has received a total of 6.5 lakh doses of vaccines out of the two crores ordered, he informed further. He further informed that the central government has so far supplied over 1.1 crore doses.
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Smoke billows out after a massive fire broke out at the Serum Institute of India, in Pune, on Thursday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will visit the Serum Institute of India s (SII) Manjari facility in Pune on Friday. A fire incident here on Thursday led to the deaths of five people. All were construction workers whose bodies were recovered by fire brigade personnel from the fifth floor of the five-storeyed under-construction building. Nine others were evacuated from the spot.
The bodies of five men, who were working on that floor, were completely burnt when the fire brigade officials reached. Two of them were from Uttar Pradesh, two from Pune and one is from Bihar.
CEO Adar Poonawalla said equipment worth hundreds of crores were damaged in the fire, and the company is expected to face revenue loss of more than Rs 1,000 crore over the next one to two years.