{"id":394928,"date":"2021-01-13T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T05:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394928"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T05:55:14","slug":"covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-first-flight-carrying-covishield-reaches-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-first-flight-carrying-covishield-reaches-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 vaccine roll out: First flight carrying Covishield reaches Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is all set to begin its nationwide COVID-19 inoculation drive, starting 16 January. The first flight carrying the Covishield vaccine, reached the national capital on Tuesday morning. The SpiceJet flight SG8937 departed the Pune airport at 8.05 am landed at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport around 10.15 am. The first consignment of Covishield consisted of 34 boxes and weighing 1088 kg, Ajay Singh, chairman and managing director, SpiceJet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to share that SpiceJet has carried India\u2019s first consignment of Covid-19 vaccines today [Tuesday]. We will be carrying multiple vaccine consignments to different Indian cities including Guwahati, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, Patna and Vijayawada through the day today,&#8221; Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks the beginning of a long and decisive phase in India\u2019s fight against the pandemic and SpiceJet is proud to assist in the biggest vaccination drive in the history of mankind,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is all set to begin its nationwide COVID-19 inoculation drive, starting 16 January. The first flight carrying the Covishield vaccine, reached the national capital on Tuesday morning. The SpiceJet flight SG8937 departed the Pune airport at 8.05 am landed at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport around 10.15 am. The first consignment of Covishield consisted of 34 boxes and weighing 1088 kg, Ajay Singh, chairman and managing director, SpiceJet. \u201cI am happy to share that SpiceJet has carried India\u2019s first consignment of Covid-19 vaccines today [Tuesday]. We will be carrying multiple vaccine consignments to different Indian cities including Guwahati, Kolkata, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394928","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}