After receiving 1.58 lakh doses of vaccines on Sunday, the centres vaccinated 45,326 citizens in the second shift on Sunday and the first shift on Monday. On Tuesday 72,606 people received the jab
A frontline worker gets a Covaxin shot at JJ Hospital in south Mumbai. File pic
Over 72,000 people received the vaccines in two shifts on Monday and Tuesday, which is the highest number till date, but the city is now facing a crunch of vaccines again. At least 15 private centres did not conduct sessions on Tuesday due to the non-availability of vaccines.
After receiving 1.58 lakh doses of vaccines on Sunday, the centres vaccinated 45,326 citizens in the second shift on Sunday and the first shift on Monday. On Tuesday 72,606 people received the jab. Of these, 30,654 were given the first dose and 41,952 their second dose. Of the 72,606, around 37,000 were senior citizens and 29,000 people were aged between 45 and 59. The rest were health and frontline workers. At least 68,000 got Covishield while around 4,500 received Covaxin. Seven people faced minor side effects and were kept under observation.
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“All the vaccines which arrived on Sunday have been given to citizens on Monday and Tuesday. Now there are hardly any vaccines left even with the civic-run centres and only a few centres will be open on Wednesday,” said Dr Mangala Gomare, executive health officer of the BMC. In a meeting held to review the situation, BMC chief Iqbal Singh Chahal said, “Along with the state government, the BMC administration is also in touch with the vaccine companies and efforts are being made to give priority to Mumbai.”
Meanwhile, the BMC is launching a regional vaccine depot in Andheri. Vaccines will be distributed to the eastern suburbs from the regional vaccine depot at Kanjurmarg and from the centre in Andheri to the western suburbs once the vaccine storage centre is commissioned.
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