MUMBAI: The appeal on Saturday by the state and BMC on Saturday to people who are bed-bound to email details and addresses so that they can be vaccinated at home followed state advocate general Ashutosh Kumbhakoni’s submissions in Bombay high court on Friday.
He had stated that 13,584 bedridden people had responded to the state’s awareness drive for home vaccination.
A high court bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni is hearing a PIL filed by advocate Dhruti Kapadia for door-step jabs to the elderly, home-bound and bedridden people. Hearing in the matter will continue on Monday.
Meanwhile, BMC’s vaccine update on Saturday said that 60,152 people were vaccinated, taking the number of vaccine doses given out in the city so far to 64.5 lakh.
On Saturday, BMC vaccinated 31,261 people under its free vaccination programme while the private sector vaccinated 26,228 people. The latest beneficiaries, pregnant women, still turned up in small numbers; on Saturday, 26 pregnant women took the vaccine, taking the total count to 51 so far.
The state’s vaccination figures for Friday stated that 6.2 lakh people were vaccinated, including 2.5 lakh in the 18-44 age group.
Meanwhile, a political party worker told Charkop police on July 15 that a person, Nilesh Mistry, found a certificate issued on CoWin app that he had taken the first dose though he had not done so, at Chavan Hospital, Kandivli. tnn
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