Inoculation drive: Covishield ‘on the move’ to vaccinate India

With less than a week left before India starts its nationwide inoculation drive, the first consignment of Oxford-Astrazena’s Covishield vaccine was dispatched from Pune early Tuesday. Three temperature-controlled trucks rolled out of the Serum Institute gates shortly before 5 am.(Express Photo by Ashish Kale)

The trucks carried 478 boxes of the vaccines, each box weighing 32 kg.(Express Photo by Ashish Kale)

These Covishield vaccines were sent to Delhi, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Karnal, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guwahati, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar. (Express Photo by Ashish Kale)

Four airlines operated 9 flights to transport over 56 lakh doses of the vaccine to 13 cities across the country. (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

Covishield is developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and manufactured by the SII.(Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

The government on Monday placed firm orders in advanced commitments for over six crore doses of COVID vaccines from SII and Bharat Biotech for inoculating three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first phase of the vaccination drive scheduled to start from January 16. (Express Photo)

Over 30 crore citizens will get the jabs in the next few months in India against only 2.5 crore people vaccinated so far in over 50 countries in around a month, prime minister has said .(Express Photo)