India's first shipment of Covid vaccine to land at Delhi airport on Thursday night
The shipment, which is being carried on Air India flight AI 850 from Pune, will likely be immediately shifted to the Rajeev Gandhi Superspeciality Hospital, where a three-storey cold storage facility has been set up
India's first shipment of coronavirus vaccine, Covishield - made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and manufactured by the Serum Institute - will land at Delhi's Indira Gandhi airport on Thursday night.
The shipment, which is being carried on Air India flight AI 850 from Pune, will likely be immediately shifted to the Rajeev Gandhi Superspeciality Hospital, where a three-storey cold storage facility has been set up, reports the NDTV.
In the event this is not possible, the shipment may be kept at the airport (which also has a cold storage facility) and taken to the hospital early Friday morning.
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Several such shipments will reach other major cities in the country over the next 72 hours, as the government prepares to roll-out the vaccine to around 30 crore people - healthcare staff and frontline workers in the battle against the virus - in the first phase of vaccination.
