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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PUNE: Maharashtra has been allocated 9.63 lakh Covishield doses from the Serum Institute of India (SII) and 20,000 doses from Bharat Biotech, as per an official communication from the Central government to the state health authorities.
The state has registered 8 lakh health beneficiaries on the CoWin app for the priority vaccination drive which will commence on January 16.
In a late-night mail received, state immunisation officer Dr DN Patil told TOI that they had received this allocation which was enough for the first dose as there are 8 lakh registered health beneficiaries in the state.
The allocation would be made district-wise, according to the registered beneficiaries.
Vaccine being off loaded from one of the trucks at the cargo hold area of the Pune airport on Tuesday early morning.
PUNE: Ahead of the vaccination drive against coronavirus, a total of 456 boxes of the Covishield vaccine have started the process of leaving the Pune airport via the air cargo facilities of different airlines since Tuesday morning. The first consignment of Covishield vaccine has reached Delhi at around 10:30am.
Three trucks containing these boxes arrived at the Pune airport from the Serum Institute of India in the morning and the process of loading them onto the aircrafts after processing them has been initiated, airport authorities said.
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PUNE: Within 12 hours after four minor girls went missing from Warje on Sunday evening, police in the early hours of Monday traced them in Mumbai.
The girls aged between 12 and 16 years who had left their houses around 4pm on Sunday found near Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) building around 3.30am on Monday. A team Warje Malwadi police led by inspector Amrut Marathe brought the girls to Pune and safely handed them over to their parents. The girls claimed that they had left their houses following harassment by the parents. Each one of them was carrying extra clothes with herself, Marathe told TOI.