Pune: City airports carry more than 42.55 doses of covishield crore vaccine, produced by Pune-based Indian Serum Institute (SII), in the past nine months even though operations are limited because the runway works as India on Thursday is given more than one billion doses of covid vaccine.
The figure provided by the Pune airport authority revealed that 11.21 the covishield vaccine crore dose was transported in September, the highest since transportation began, and more than 21% higher than August.
The first consignment of the Covishield vaccine, which consisted of 2.6 lakh doses, left Pune airport for Delhi on January 13.
In May this year, more than 10 doses of crore were transported.
Between June and September, around 31.31 crore doses were transported from Pune.
Although the large consignment of the vaccine was transported from Pune, most vaccines were transported from Pune via road or from Mumbai airport.
“Limited air connectivity in Pune is a basic reason.
Problems of shift in the area of cargo holders remain trapped even after the comments of the Nitin Gadkari minister about land transfer,” said another airport official.
“The numbers show that vaccine transportation from the airport has increased.
With SII arranged to produce sputnik-V too, it will rise further,” officially added.
42.55 Crore Dosage Covishield was flown through Pune airport
