Students travelling abroad for higher studies, who were to take their jabs at three hospitals in the city on Monday, were a worried lot in the morning after word spread that the BMC had reserved only 50 doses for each of the centres. However, the civic body later claimed that there were no restrictions on the number of doses and the students could get inoculated on a walk-in basis at the three centres — Kasturba, Rajawadi and Cooper hospitals. The BMC’s vaccination data shows that a total of 987 students were vaccinated by the end of the day.

A civic official said, “There was a lot of rush at these three hospitals and as it was being done on a walk-in basis for the students, we had provided enough stock.” On Monday, 86,887 beneficiaries were inoculated at several civic, government and private centres. Out of the total inoculations done on Monday, 64,610 were carried out at 31 private hospitals whereas the civic and state centres conducted 22,277. Only two cases of adverse effects were reported.