Sources in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have said that the civic body wants the time gap between two doses of Covishield reduced. With a majority of the eligible population being vaccinated with the first dose, the proportion of people vaccinated with the second dose is still less than 25 per cent. This has irked the civic body enough to reserve vaccination days for second-dose beneficiaries at public centres and to verbally suggest a reduction in interval to the Centre.

Currently, over 65 lakh people have been vaccinated with the first dose, whereas only 22 lakh citizens are fully vaccinated. Of the 65 lakh, over 60 lakh have been administered Covishield. With warning bells over the third wave ringing, vaccinating a larger population with the current 84-day gap has become a difficult task for the civic body.