As it struggles to make space for COVID patients, the civic body, in a first, has decided to close its vaccination centre at the Mulund Jumbo COVID Center to make way for beds. The city also continues to reel under a vaccine shortage as 39 private centres did not operate on Wednesday. In addition, suburban Guardian Minister Aaditya Thackeray said that the BMC should have vaccination centres in all 227 corporator wards in the city.

Speaking at the inauguration of a centre at a Wadala hospital, Thackeray said, “Considering the population of Mumbai, vaccination centres should be started in all 227 constituencies of the corporation as soon as possible.”