13 February,2021 05:43 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
A police official receives the vaccine at Nair Hospital on Friday. Pic/Suresh Karkera
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) received the third consignment of Covishield late on Thursday night. It has also been increasing the vaccination centres in the city and now has involved all the five Jumbo COVID Centres for vaccinations.
The BMC received a consignment of 2.6 lakh doses which further mean that the civic body will be in a position to take up the drive of the second dose for the beneficiaries, and also continue with the frontline workers without having to worry about shortfall. BMC officials claimed that it now has enough stock of the vaccines, which are being transported to the required centres as and when required.
The civic body has been operating about 104 units across the 23 vaccination centres to ensure that enough beneficiaries can avail of the facility. The civic body is also mulling on roping in private hospitals as vaccination centres.
The total number of beneficiaries that have been inoculated is 1,07,725, so far. The turnout of the frontline workers too has been gradually increasing, taking the number of beneficiaries inoculated on Thursday to 6,361, almost 61 per cent of the expected turn out. The BMC had expected a turnout of 5,700 frontline workers, out of which 3,979 turned up on Friday. But the health workers number dropped and only around 51 per cent had turned up. The expected health workers were 4,700, while on Friday the number of health workers that were inoculated was 2,382. There were five cases of adverse effects but as they were minor, the beneficiaries were allowed to go after being under observation for half an hour.
A BMC official said, "We will be looking at getting in as many people as possible for vaccination, as we have resources and now we also have the doses."
