The BMC is just 29 per cent short of completing the immunisation programme against Covid-19, the civic body has revealed. The news comes amid growing concerns about the spread of the variant, Omicron, which experts believe is possibly even more transmissible than the highly infectious Delta variant, and that current vaccines may be less effective against it.

With 71 per cent of the total eligible population of 92 lakh being fully vaccinated so far, it has gone 100 per cent and above by administering first doses. There is no shortage of vaccines, unlike in the past, and the BMC wants citizens to come forward to get their doses. Even as the jumbo centres lie vacant, it is the vaccination drive that is helping them remain afloat. The BMC has over 427 sites that are conducting inoculation drives in the city and the BKC’s Covid jumbo centre tops the chart. The female population still remains hesitant to come out to get their doses, revealed the data.