To help students planning to pursue higher education in foreign universities, the BMC will write to the Centre seeking concession in the mandatory 84-day interval between the two doses of Covishield. Earlier, Shiv Sena minister Aaditya Thackeray had asked the civic body to look into the queries of such students.

Mumbai students trying for admission during the fall season say they do not have the luxury of time to wait for nearly three months for the second shot and that they need some concession on this front.