Mumbai airport begins COVID-19 vaccine transportation; 2,400 vials airlifted to Goa

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COVID-19 vaccine transportation from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) commenced on Wednesday with price range service GoAir airlifting 2,400 vials of Covishield to Goa.

The Wadia Group-owned no-frills airline has scheduled flights carrying vaccines to Lucknow, Cochin and Chandigarh as effectively, moreover Goa, throughout the day, a GoAir spokesperson advised PTI.

GoAir’s first flight carrying 2,400 vials (24,000 doses) of Covishield vaccine took off at 5.20 am and reached Goa at 6.30 am, the spokesperson stated.

A large pan-India inoculation drive towards COVID-19 was set in course of on Tuesday with greater than 56 lakh doses of the Covishield vaccine leaving Pune for 13 cities throughout the nation, 4 days earlier than the vaccinations are scheduled to start on January 16.

Covishield is developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca and manufactured by Pune-based pharma agency Serum Institute of India (SII).

GoAir stated it would airlift a complete of 69,600 vials of the vaccine.

Mumbai airport, which is the “largest pharma hub”, is seeking to cater to no less than 16 locations within the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccines, the personal airport operator had stated in an announcement to PTI.

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