Many public and private vaccination centres were closed on Wednesday amid the ongoing shortage. The BMC was expecting a new consignment on Wednesday night. If the stock were to fail to reach on time, 40 private vaccination centres are expected to be closed on Thursday while the remaining 33 open ones would only administer the second dose.

The city nearly ran out of stock on Wednesday. According to a note published by the BMC, 24,58,600 vaccines were made available to it till April 25. Of these, 24,10,860 vaccines have been used. There were 47,740 vaccine doses left at centres till 2 pm on Wednesday. This stock was expected to be utilised fully on Wednesday itself.