SpiceJet flies COVID-19 vaccines to 11 cities

Pune:SpiceJet on Wednesday shipped 111 boxes of the COVID-19 vaccines, weighing 3.5 tonnes from Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad to eleven cities.

In an official statement, the airliner said, “SpiceJet’s freighter flight SG 7555 operating from Hyderabad to Bengaluru took-off at 8.50 am today with a shipment of 3 boxes of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin weighing 90 kg. It landed in Bengaluru at 10.23 am.”

It continued, “From Mumbai, SpiceJet carried 74 boxes of Serum Institute of India’s Covishield vaccine to various cities including two to Bagdogra, 10 to Dehradun, seven to Srinagar and Rajkot, six each to Jammu and Kanpur, nine to Gorakhpur, 13 to Jabalpur and 14 to Ranchi.”

“From Pune, SpiceJet carried 34 boxes of Covishield to Delhi. This follows the successful shipment of 4 million doses of Covishield by SpiceJet on January 12,” it added.(UNI)