With the availability of vaccines at public centres no longer a problem and a large chunk of the population living in high-rises already vaccinated, doses administered by private centres saw a major drop in October. While the share of jabs given by these centres was 54 per cent in August and 40 per cent in September, this month till date they have given only 22 per cent of the total doses.

As part of the city’s mass vaccination drive, more than 97 per cent of adults have received at least one dose and 55 per cent, both doses. In May when the government refused to vaccinate people between 18 and 45 years of age free of cost and public centres were facing a shortage of jabs, people turned to private centres.