Owing to the tremendous response to the Covid-19 vaccine shown by them, senior citizens form 40 per cent of the chunk of Mumbai’s inoculated population. In addition, 93 per cent of the people who got vaccinated received the Covishield shot.

The inoculation of senior citizens and those aged 45 and above with comorbidities started on March 1. There are about 11,14,787 senior citizen beneficiaries inoculated till May 12. The total numbers of inoculations till May 12 are 27,86,048.