Over 1 lakh Mumbaikars vaccinated in one day

MUMBAI: The city clocked over one lakh vaccinations on Friday after nearly a fortnight. A total of 1,01,944 people was vaccinated across 426 centres, taking the count of fully vaccinated people to nearly 17.4 lakh.

The total doses administered in Mumbai so far has crossed 71.2 lakh. BMC’s additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani said the city had received 1.8 lakh doses a few days ago and hence should be able to vaccinate comfortably till Monday. The city has been averaging around 70,000 inoculations over the last few weeks, partly due to shortage of doses in the public centres.

Maharashtra vaccinated over six lakh people on Friday, an uptick from the average vaccinations since in the past 10 days. Maharashtra has administered 4.3 crore doses so far, the second highest in the country after UP. However, given that the state has an estimated adult population of 8.5 crore, complete vaccination is a long road ahead.

A task force member said that the threat of a third wave will continue to loom on Maharashtra till 60%-70% of the population was vaccinated with at least one dose. A state official said the daily vaccination numbers had plunged slightly after immunisation was hit by the floods in western Maharashtra. Data shows that Maharashtra has received around 66 lakh doses, including nearly 10.3 lakh doses of Covaxin in July. It was an increase from around 59 lakh doses received in June.