Rajasthan received 5,50,500 doses of the Covishield vaccine on Wednesday which will be distributed to different districts. Out of 5,50,500 vaccine doses, as many as 4,32,500 were received at Jaipur airport, which were transported from Pune by a flight.
Rajasthan received 5,50,500 doses of the Covishield vaccine on Wednesday which will be distributed to different districts. Out of 5,50,500 vaccine doses, as many as 4,32,500 were received at Jaipur airport, which were transported from Pune by a flight.
The vaccines were transported without any police protection unlike earlier when the first lot of vaccines reached Jaipur airport.
Besides, 1,18,000 vaccine doses were landed at Udaipur airport which will be distributed to the districts in the Udaipur division.
“Now, we have sufficient numbers of doses which are enough to vaccinate our registered healthcare workers,” said Siddharth Mahajan, secretary (health).
On January 13, the state had received 5,63,500 doses of vaccines, out of those, 4,43,000 lakh doses had reached Jaipur, while 1,00,500 had reached Udaipur.
So far, the state has received 11,13,500 doses, out of those 32,379 have been administered, while rest of them are kept in vaccine stores across the state maintaining the temperature from 2 degree Celcius to 8 degree Celcius.
“The vaccines which have received on Wednesday will be distributed to other districts across the state on Thursday,” said Dr Raghuraj Singh, project director (immunization), health department.
The officials from districts will reach Jaipur along with vaccine vans for the transportation of shots.
The health department has prepared a list of districts which will be supplied with the vaccines according to the need of the districts.
The vaccines received by the health authorities at Jaipur airport and Udaipur airport have been kept at state-level vaccine stores.
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