Instead of sticking to its earlier plan of calling the beneficiaries who are yet to take their second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine as per their registered addresses, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has divided the work equally among the 24 administrative wards. Each ward war room will now make calls to an average of 15,000 second dose beneficiaries of Covishield and 3,000 of Covaxin from across the city and not just stick to those from a particular ward. Civic officials said that this would ensure fair distribution of work.

As per the list prepared by the civic body, a total of 3.7 lakh people are yet to take the second Covishield shot and for over 81,000 a second shot of the Covaxin is pending. Speaking about the earlier plan of making calls as per the addresses, the civic officials said that they did not want to burden any particular ward owing to possible disparity in numbers. mid-day on Monday had reported about the civic body creating a database of citizens who have missed out on their second dose and instructing the 24 ward war rooms to reach out to them and complete their vaccination.