As health care and frontline workers start getting inoculated from January 16, Forbes India looks at how states are gearing up to implement last-mile vaccination, where the private sector is chipping in, and the fears, hesitancy or confidence beneficiaries have regarding the vaccine shot
India Kicks Off One Of World s Biggest Vaccination Drives India Kicks Off One Of World s Biggest Vaccination Drives The government has designated four main distribution points Karnal, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata and there are 37 state vaccine storage areas in the country
Refrigerated trucks, private jets moved out from Pune on Tuesday to nearly 60 locations in India
India has kicked off one of the world s biggest inoculation programs that will be a crucial test of how quickly developing countries, with limited health and transportation infrastructure, can protect their populations against Covid-19.
Refrigerated trucks and private planes, accompanied by police officers, fanned out from Pune on Tuesday to around 60 different locations across India as hundreds of thousands of medical workers are on standby to start vaccinations this weekend.
India kicks off vaccination of its massive population
Ragini Saxena, P R Sanjai and Bibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg
Jan. 12, 2021
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Health workers stand next to volunteers during a nationwide trial of a covid-19 vaccine delivery system at a vaccination center in New Delhi on Jan. 2, 2021.Bloomberg photo by T. Narayan
India has kicked off one of the world s biggest inoculation programs that will be a crucial test of how quickly developing countries, with limited health and transportation infrastructure, can protect their populations against covid-19.
Refrigerated trucks and private planes, accompanied by police officers, fanned out Tuesday from the western city of Pune to around 60 different locations across India as hundreds of thousands of medical workers are on standby to start vaccinations this weekend.
Three temperature-controlled trucks filled with Covid-19 vaccine vials pulled out of Serum Institute’s production plant in Pune at 5 a.m on Tuesday, marking the start of a mega immunization drive in the country. The jabs will be administered beginning January 16. The trucks that headed to the Pune Airport were specially designed containers equipped with sensors monitoring location, temperature, light exposure and unusual jolting. The first flight to ship out the vaccine to Delhi was a SpiceJet Boeing-737 carrying 22 boxes. Each box weighing 32 kg contained around 12,000 doses of Covishield vaccines and gel packs- a portable plastic bag filled with refrigerant gel. A GoAir flight to Chennai followed shortly.