Hyderabad: The first consignment of vaccines arrived at the cargo terminal of the Hyderabad airport by SpiceJet freighter, SG 7466 at 11:30am from Pune. “The Covishield vaccine consignment was handled as per the special protocol ensuring cool-chain integrity, by a dedicated vaccine task force that has been formed, with a nodal person, to ensure a seamless and high priority movement of Covid-19 vaccines,” a release by GMR stated.
The consignment consisting of 31 boxes of 1 MT of Covishield vaccine were offloaded from the aircraft parked in the adjoining dedicated cargo apron and taken to vaccine storage area in GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo terminal. It was then shifted to a government truck.
SpiceJet, said it transported close to four million vaccine doses weighing around 11 tonnes across cities. “SpiceJet transported multiple vaccine consignments from Pune to Indian cities including 2,76,000 doses to Guwahati, 9,96,000 doses to Kolkata, 3,72,000 doses to Hyderabad, 4,80,000 doses to Bhubaneswar, 6,48,000 doses to Bengaluru, 5,52,000 doses to Patna and 4,08,000 doses to Vijayawada,” it said.
