In Gujarat, the first batch of vaccine with two lakh 76 thousand doses reached Ahmedabad airport this morning from Pune. State Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel along with senior officials of the Health Department received the first batch of vaccines sent from Pune-based institute.<br />'' <br />''Briefing media persons, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said that the state will begin vaccination drive from 16th of January. AIR correspondent reports that the first batch of vaccine received from Pune Institute have been preserved at the Regional Storage Centre in Gandhinagar. Apart from Gandhinagar, similar Regional Storage Centres have been set up at Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Surat and Bhavnagar. Each Regional Centre has a capacity to preserve and store eight to ten lakh vaccine doses.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">First Phase of vaccination will begin at 256 booths across the state on Saturday. Health workers and frontline Corona Warriors will be vaccinated during the First Phase. Meanwhile, Gujarat has recorded 615 new cases of COVID-19 during the last 24 hours. State has 7,695 active cases at present, out of these 60 patients are on ventilators. </span><br />