{"id":392182,"date":"2020-12-30T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T03:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=392182"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T03:27:39","slug":"delhi-airport-completely-ready-to-handle-vaccine-distribution-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-airport-completely-ready-to-handle-vaccine-distribution-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi airport &#8216;completely ready&#8217; to handle vaccine distribution challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distributing vaccines around India will pose plenty of logistical headaches given the size of the country, its vast population and number of coronavirus cases, now at more than 10 million. <\/p>\n<p>For its part, India\u2019s busiest airport is \u201ccompletely ready\u201d to handle Covid-19 vaccines, according to Delhi International Airport Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Videh Kumar Jaipuriar, but there could be issues elsewhere considering more remote areas may not be equipped with sufficient equipment and containers. \u201cOne of the key challenges will be the availability of cold chain across India,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>New Delhi\u2019s airport &#8212; Indira Gandhi International &#8212; will be a main handling point and has facilities to store 2.7 million vials of vaccine at 2-to-8 degrees Celsius, as well as cooling chambers that can keep temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius, Jaipuriar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distributing vaccines around India will pose plenty of logistical headaches given the size of the country, its vast population and number of coronavirus cases, now at more than 10 million. For its part, India\u2019s busiest airport is \u201ccompletely ready\u201d to handle Covid-19 vaccines, according to Delhi International Airport Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Videh Kumar Jaipuriar, but there could be issues elsewhere considering more remote areas may not be equipped with sufficient equipment and containers. \u201cOne of the key challenges will be the availability of cold chain across India,\u201d he said. New Delhi\u2019s airport &#8212; Indira Gandhi International &#8212; will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}