Nearly 1.64 crore people in Maharashtra are yet to take the second dose of coronavirus vaccines and the state health department is pursuing them to get jabbed at the earliest to complete the two-shot course and ensure protection against Covid-19, a senior official said on Friday.

From December to mid-January, the state administered was administering eight to nine lakh vaccine doses daily, but the number has dropped significantly now, Dr Sachin Desai, in-charge of the state's immunisation programme, said.