PUNE: With the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in India scheduled to roll out on January 16, the transportation of the Covishield vaccine from the Serum Institute of India facilities in Pune in Maharashtra is likely to start from the night of January 11. January or January 12, sources. involved in logistics planning, he said on Sunday.
Trucks loaded with vaccines will leave the SII’s Manjari location with elaborate police security.
The central government said on Saturday that India will launch its Covid-19 vaccination campaign starting on January 16, with priority for nearly three million frontline and healthcare workers.
“In all likelihood, there are chances that the Covishield vaccine transport will start from Monday. Tentatively, there are plans to start the vaccine movement on Monday, but if that doesn’t happen for some reason, it will definitely start from Tuesday by the morning ”, said the sources involved in the planning of security and logistics for the transport of the vaccine.
Covishield is co-developed by the University of Oxford and the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca in collaboration with the SII.
The Maharashtra government has already decided to provide police security for the trucks that transport the vaccine to the airports and state borders.
“A provider of cold chain logistics services: Kool-Ex Cold Chain Ltd is the leading provider for the movement of vaccine from the SII factory to 48 primary government locations (depots) in the first stage,” said co-founder of the company, Rahul Agarwal. .
He said that around 300 GPS-equipped trucks will be used and 500 trucks will be connected if necessary.
On Saturday, Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta met with representatives of the Kool-ex to simplify the convoy system for trucks carrying the vaccine.
“We had a meeting with them. We told them that since the trucks would start their journey from Pune, they would be given security cover for the initial period of 10 to 15 days,” he had said.
An IBS source had said that certain processes on the transport of the vaccine are being finalized.
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