Mumbai: More peripheral and primary care health centres for vaccination

Veteran actress Asha Parekh gets vaccinated at Bhatia hospital on Tuesday. Pic/Bipin Kokate

On Tuesday over 44,000 people were vaccinated across various civic and private vaccination centres and a total of 6,90,244 have been inoculated so far. According to the data of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), 10 adverse effects were reported by those who took Covishield vaccines while there were no adverse effects reported in the case of those who took the Covaxin vaccines.

The BMC has been preparing to increase the number of vaccination centres across the city and will be including more of peripheral and primary care health centres for this. Civic officials said that there is no issue in the case of arrival of more vaccines and they have been made available on demand almost every week.

The number of senior citizens that turned up for the vaccination on Tuesday was 28,106 and the number of people aged 45 and above was 4,407. The total turnout was 42,534 including the health and frontline workers. At least 89 vaccination centers operated on Tuesday and 216 units functioned.

The number of front line workers vaccinated on Tuesday who took their first dose was 2,769 and those took their second dose was 3,120. The cases of adverse effects were minor and hence were allowed to go after observation of half an hour. At least 86,805 health and frontline workers have been fully vaccinated so far, with both the required jabs.