COVID19 Update; First Batches of vaccine reach North Eastern States
- | Friday | 15th January, 2021
The northeastern states will be getting both Covishield and Covaxin vaccines, government sources said.
The first phase of Corona vaccines will start from January 16 before which states are receiving the consignments for the prescribed doses of the Vaccine. In the North-East part of the country, states have received the vaccines.
While Assam has received 204,000 doses of the ‘Covishield’ vaccine, neighbouring Meghalaya has got 36,000 doses. Twenty boxes, each containing 12,000 doses of Covishield, were received in Guwahati on Tuesday. Of these 17 were meant for Assam while the remaining three, containing 36,000 doses, were sent to Meghalaya.
The vaccine reached Shillong late on Tuesday evening, which was immediately shifted to a cold storage facility.
Arunachal Pradesh received its first batch of vaccines containing 32,000 on Thursday. Chief Minister Pema Khandu said the vaccines are being sent to designated vaccine stores across the state.
Nagaland received the first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccines containing 26, 500 doses on Thursday. The Covishield vaccine doses arrived at Dimapur Airport on Thursday.
“The first phase of the Covishield vaccine has arrived today at Dimapur Airport. We have received 26500 doses from GoI & Nagaland will join the Nation in rolling out the first phase on 16th Jan’ 2021,” Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Minister S Pangnyu Phom said in a tweet.
Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Wednesday received the 54,000 doses of Covishield vaccine at Bir Tikendrajit International Airport in Imphal.
He told reporters that the first phase of vaccination for frontline workers would begin on January 16 along with the rest of India.
In Agartala, Tripura’s National Health Mission (NHM) director Siddharth Shiv Jaiswal said that 56,500 doses of Covishield supplied by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India reached the state on Wednesday.
“In the first phase, the vaccine would be administered among 45,000 beneficiaries in 152 locations across eight districts,” Jaiswal said.
Mizoram also received its first batch of 18, 500 doses of ‘Covishield’ vaccine on Thursday which was shipped to Lengpui Airport via Kolkata.
Sikkim received its first consignment of 12,500 ‘Covishield’ vaccines on Wednesday, which will be administered to almost 6,000 health care workers.
The northeastern states will be getting both Covishield and Covaxin vaccines, government sources said.
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