MUMBAI: For two days in a row, more than a lakh citizens got vaccinated in Mumbai.
On Saturday, 1.01 lakh people took the jabs, 70,213 of which were taken at BMC-run centres for free. So far, 17.7 lakh people are fully vaccinated in Mumbai while 54.5 lakh have got one shot.
“We received two lakh vaccines a couple of days back that helped boost the numbers on Friday and Saturday,’’ said BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani.
BMC officials said the stocks are adequate enough for Monday as well. Kakani said the BMC had received more vaccines in July than in June. “The June supply was more than the supply in May. We are hence hopeful that we will get more vaccines in August so that we can vaccinate the maximum number of people,” said Kakani.
The BMC can vaccinate up to 1.5 lakh people a day, but the supply has been erratic, leading to a few days when the free vaccine drive is cancelled.
Meanwhile, the state government update said that 6,76,208 people got vaccinated on Friday. Of these, 3.4 lakh beneficiaries were in the 18-44 age group while 3.1 lakh were over 45 years of age. Maharashtra has over 1 crore people who are fully vaccinated, the highest for any state in the country.
