As the city marches towards 100 per cent vaccination, the speed of administering the first dose has dropped from 43,420 a day in September to 16,207 a day in the past 10 days. The number of beneficiaries coming for the second dose has also dropped from 55,000 a day to 33,300 a day. In the past 10 days, between October 14 and 23, only 1.62 lakh people took their first dose. The city has an aim of completing 92 lakh first doses by October-end.

A woman gets a dose of Covid vaccine at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Primary School in Chembur. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi