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Over 14 tonnes of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine to be shipped from Pune today

Air India, GoAir, IndiGo and SpiceJet will carry the shots

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The first consignment of Covishield vaccines leaves the Serum Institute

Aneesh Phadnis Mumbai
Over 14 tonnes of Oxford Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccines will be flown from Pune in ten flights on Tuesday.

The government inked a contract  with Serum Institute of India for 11 million doses and these would be flown out of Pune in the first phase.

SpiceJet carried the first doses from Pune in its 8 am Delhi flight. The first consignment of Covishield consisting of 34 boxes and weighing 1088 kg was carried from Pune to Delhi on SpiceJet flight 8937

The airline is also using its freighters to transport  vaccines to Kolkata, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar and Vijaywada.

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