The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking on Tuesday said that 50 per cent of its employees have been vaccinated for COVID-19 and the process for the rest is underway.

“In just a period of two weeks, almost 50 per cent of BEST undertaking employees have been vaccinated. We took a meeting on February 15, 2021 with Additional Municipal Commissioner and BMC officials and as per discussions, we handed over the entire database of all employees and uploaded it together at one go. This helped expedite the process. Once the database was with the BMC, their officials took it ahead and began the process,” Dr Anil Kumar Singal, pulmonologist and BEST’s chief medical officer said.