<p>Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday received 4.96 lakh doses of Covaxin, the much awaited indigenously-developed coronavirus vaccine.</p>.<p>A special cargo plane brought the vaccine to the Vijayawada airport from Pune on Tuesday afternoon. From there the consignment was shifted to the state vaccine depot in Gannavaram.</p>.<p>State Health Commissioner Katamaneni Bhaskar said the first consignment of vaccine doses would be sufficient to vaccinate about 3.7 lakh health care workers in the first round beginning January 16.</p>.<p>The state government made elaborate arrangements for storing the vaccine in temperature-controlled cold storage units.</p>.<p>Refrigerated vans will be used to transport the vaccine to over 1,900 session sites where the chosen healthcare workers will be given the vaccine from January 16.</p>
<p>Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday received 4.96 lakh doses of Covaxin, the much awaited indigenously-developed coronavirus vaccine.</p>.<p>A special cargo plane brought the vaccine to the Vijayawada airport from Pune on Tuesday afternoon. From there the consignment was shifted to the state vaccine depot in Gannavaram.</p>.<p>State Health Commissioner Katamaneni Bhaskar said the first consignment of vaccine doses would be sufficient to vaccinate about 3.7 lakh health care workers in the first round beginning January 16.</p>.<p>The state government made elaborate arrangements for storing the vaccine in temperature-controlled cold storage units.</p>.<p>Refrigerated vans will be used to transport the vaccine to over 1,900 session sites where the chosen healthcare workers will be given the vaccine from January 16.</p>