Updated On: 13 February, 2021 07:17 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
The 2.6 lakh doses mean that the BMC will be able to take up the drive of the second dose for beneficiaries

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.