On Tuesday, about 54.72 lakh vaccine doses were received at several vaccine stores in 13 cities across the country, after the government placed orders to buy vaccines ahead of the drive scheduled that will start from January 16.
The process of shipping vaccines will continue today and tomorrow as a total of 1.1 crore shots of Covishield and 55 lakh shots of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin will be received by January 14. From these centres, vaccine shots will then be transported to storage locations.
Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Shillong, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Mumbai have already received vaccine shots
Vaccine centres in states/UTs
There are four general medical stores department at Karnal, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai. All states have at least one state-level regional vaccine store. Among states, which have more than one state-level regional vaccine stores include Uttar Pradesh (9), Madhya Pradesh (4), Gujarat (4), Kerala (3), J&K (2), Karnataka (2) and Rajasthan (2).
Cost of Covaxin and Covishield
The government is buying 1.1 crore doses of Covishield and 55 lakh doses of Covaxin. Each dose of Covishield is costing ₹210. Meanwhile Bharat Biotech is providing 16.5 lakh doses free of cost. The other 38.5 lakh doses cost ₹295, excluding taxes including the GST. The first order will cost ₹231 crore.
Registration
The healthcare workers who will be inoculated in the first phase starting from January 16 will not need registration. The website of Co-WIN app (cowin.gov.in) has gone live but only for pre-registered users.
Covishield is developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and manufactured by the SII.
Bharat Biotech has developed the indigenous vaccine Covaxin in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Virology.
