The first consignment of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin landed in Delhi from Hyderabad on Wednesday. Bharat Biotech aims to dispatch around 55 lakh vaccines to 11 cities in the initial phase, including Delhi, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Chennai and Jaipur.
In Delhi, the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) would receive 20,000 doses of Bharat Biotech’s Covid vaccine from a consignment which landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on Wednesday morning, officials told IANS.
The RGSSH has already received 2.64 lakh doses of the ‘Covishield’ vaccine on Tuesday. The hospital has received 22 boxes consisting of 26,400 vials of ‘Covishield’, the Covid vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII).
