Just a day after 43,000 people got vaccinated, the number dropped to less than 37,000 on Thursday owing to Mahashivratri celebrations. Of the 36,933 people who received the vaccines on Thursday, 25,260 were senior citizens and 4,004 were people with comorbidities.

The doses are being administered at vaccination centres set up at 30 public hospitals and 42 private facilities across the city. More than 42,702 beneficiaries had received the vaccine shots on Wednesday, and the same figure on Tuesday was 43,581.