MUMBAI: Public vaccination centres in the city will administer only second doses on Thursday. On Tuesday, the city received three lakh doses from the state, the highest tranche it has ever got.
Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani said an estimated 2.5 lakh people were awaiting their second dose in the city. The first special drive to vaccinate only second dose recipients was organised on Saturday, which got a good response as 1.79 lakh beneficiaries were vaccinated. “In the last estimate taken, there were 2.66 lakh people waiting for their second dose, of which we had covered 1.79 lakh,” he said.
Kakani said the second dose was given priority to prevent hospitalisations and deaths should there be a third wave.
Of the three lakh doses received from the state on Tuesday, 2.95 lakh are Covishield.
Insufficiency of doses caused vaccination to drop on Tuesday. After Monday’s record of 1.72 lakh doses, the number dropped to 66,201 on Tuesday.
The state vaccinated 5,63,954 people on Tuesday.
