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.
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PUNE/MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray will chair a meeting to review the bird flu situation in the state on Monday.
Maharashtra on Sunday had joined seven other states in reporting an outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu.
The presence of the H5N1 strain in Maharashtra was confirmed late on Sunday with Bhopal-based National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases finding it in the trachea and spleen samples of dead birds sent from the state for tests even as 11 more crows were found dead in Chembur in Mumbai.
Maharashtra animal husbandry commissioner Sachindra Pratap Singh told TOI that the samples of dead poultry birds from Muramba village in Parbhani and dead crows and pond egrets in Mumbai, Ghodbunder (Thane district) and Dapoli have returned positive for H5N1.
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PUNE: The Pune Rural police on Sunday carried out an elaborate combing operation in the entire district and arrested 39 criminals on police records. They also recovered four country-made pistols, six cartridges and six sharp weapons. They checked hotels, lodges, petrol stations and vehicles.
Senior inspector of the local crime branch Padmakar Ghanwat said 79 teams comprising 72 police officers and 307 personnel had been formed.
“During the drive, the teams had checked 158 criminals with a previous record of possessing illegal firearms. We have recovered four country-made pistols, six cartridges and six sharp weapons from 11 suspects,” Ghanwat said.
The police also checked about 352 criminals who are on the run. “Of these, 39 have been taken into custody. We have also registered an offence against three criminals for violating the externment order,” Ghanwat said.
The upcoming cold storage for the Covid vaccine in Kanjur on Saturday
PUNE: The state health department aims to vaccinate nearly 51,000 beneficiaries daily when the Covid-19 inoculation drive begins for priority groups.
Dr Archana Patil, director of state health services, said that the drives would be carried out at 511 vaccination centres across the state. Officials are currently identifying such sites.
Dr Patil said that every municipal corporation in the state would have eight to 10 designated vaccination centres within its limits.
“Basic facilities that are required at these sites include internet connectivity and trained IT personnel who know the CoWIN system well,” she said.