Reached 30 cities in 30 days: Bharat Biotech

HYDERABAD: Indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin has reached 30 cities in 30 days despite quite a few employees being hit by SARS-CoV-2, a top official of Bharat Biotech said on Tuesday.
“Covaxin reaches 30 cities within 30 day. All our employees are committed, working 24x7 thru lockdowns for the country’s immunisation…Some are still quarantined & off work,” Bharat Biotech joint managing director Suchitra Ella tweeted.

Ella also tweeted the list of cities that Covaxin has reached through private hospital dispatches that includes the metros and tier-1 cities like Bengaluru, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune.
The list also includes smaller cities like Amritsar. Calicut, Coimbatore, Ernakulam, Goa, Guntur, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Jaipur, Jalgaon, Kanpur, Khammam, Kochi, Mohali, Mysore, Nellore, Nizamabad, Noida, Raipur, Shimoga, Vijayawada, Vizag and Warangal.
Bharat Biotech had started out with direct dispatches to six states – Chhattisgarh, Delhi, J&K, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and UP – and has been gradually ramping up supplies to various states and private hospitals.