Mumbai Resumes Vaccination Drive After 3 Days Amid Shortage

Mumbai's vaccination drive was halted for 3 days due to shortage of doses in the city.

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Mumbai Corona Vaccination: After a break of 3 days, vaccination will be done again today at all vaccination centers in Mumbai. Mumbai received 85,000 doses of the vaccine late Saturday night. This dose is enough to vaccinate people on Monday. However, Mumbai has only enough doses to vaccinate people on Monday and Tuesday. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is hopeful that the vaccine will be received from the Centre on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, after which the vaccination campaign will not have to be stopped for any day. However, the central government has said that the states still have about 1 crore 44 lakh vaccines left. 

Hope to receive more vaccines

Today, from 9 am to 5 pm, people will be vaccinated at all centers in Mumbai. Suresh Kakani, Additional Municipal Commissioner of Public Health Department in BMC said, "We received 84,000 vaccine doses on Saturday night. This is enough for 2 days but it depends on the turn-out at the vaccination centres. That's why we are expecting more vaccine doses on Monday and Tuesday night." 

283 BMC Vaccine Centers in Mumbai

Kakani added, "Mumbai can vaccinate around 1.5 lakh people daily. That's why we have demanded with the state government for the doses to vaccinate around 1 lakh people every day. Since the state government has not been getting enough vaccine doses from the Centre, Mumbai is receiving its share only on a stock basis." There are 401 vaccination centres in Mumbai, of which 283 are BMC centres. Apart from this, there 83 private hospitals with vaccination centres. At these centres, 50% of the people are vaccinated through the appointment and the other 50% get their vaccines through on spot walk-in registration.  

1.44 crore vaccines available with states

On Sunday, the Union Health Ministry said that union territories and private hospitals have more than 1.44 crore Covid-19 vaccines. It said that so far more than 38.60 crore vaccines have been provided to the states and union territories from all sources and 11 lakh 25 thousand 140 vaccines are to be given. According to the data received till 8 a.m., a total of 37 crore 16 lakh 47 thousand 625 vaccines including the wasted vaccine have been used. The new phase of the Covid-19 vaccination started from 21 June.

Increasing Covid Cases In Maharashtra

In Maharashtra, 8535 new cases of Covid-19 infection have been registered in the last 24 hours. At the same time, 156 people have died in the last 24 hours and after treatment, 6013 people have recovered from the infection. After new figures, the number of Covid-19 cases in the state has increased to 61 lakh 57 thousand 799. At the same time, 59 lakh 12 thousand 479 people have recovered after treatment. The death toll has increased to 1 lakh 25 thousand 878. According to the data released by the state government, the number of active cases in Maharashtra is 1 lakh 16 thousand 165.