Four days ahead of the most-awaited nationwide inoculation drive launch, the first consignment of Covishield vaccines left Serum Institute of India for Pune airport in the wee hours of Tuesday.
The truck carrying 478 boxes of the vaccines, each box weighing 32 kg were dispatched to 13 locations across the country, Serum Institute of India(SII) staff performed puja for the trucks at the facility.
The locations where these Covishield vaccines will be flown from Pune include Delhi, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Karnal, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guwahati, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar. Here are the few inside pictures from inside the Serum Institute of India(SII) facility,
An emotional moment for the team at @SerumInstIndia as the first shipments of #Covishield finally leave for multiple locations across India. pic.twitter.com/AmrZLesmj5
— Adar Poonawalla (@adarpoonawalla) January 12, 2021
