Covid vaccine: A shot of hope
Officials exude confidence ahead of India's mammoth Covid vaccination programme, but challenges remain on the ground.
A dry run of the Covid vaccination programme in Jaipur (Photo: AFP)
ISSUE DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | UPDATED: Jan 17, 2021 08:51 IST
At 5 am on January 12, three temperature-controlled trucks arrived at the Pune airport. Police and airport security in tow, they took a special route on the runway for their consignments to be loaded onto nine flights. Heading to 13 cities across India, these flights carried 5.6 million doses of the Covishield vaccine between them. It was the first batch of the much-awaited protection against the Covid virus, the first shots of which will be administered to some 30 million Indians for free, beginning January 16.
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