TOI reported that Mumbai has fully immunized 50% of its 92.4 lakh adult population, becoming the first district in Maharashtra to reach that mark. Over 44.6 lakh people have received both shots, while about 86 lakh people (93%) have been given at least one shot. Meanwhile, in Maharashtra, 30 per cent have been fully vaccinated.
BMC commissioner IS Chahal said he is optimistic that by the end of October all the adult population of Mumbai will be vaccinated with at least one shot.
The highest coverage has been among senior citizens where more than 76 percent have been fully vaccinated and more than 100% have received at least one shot. In the 45–59 group, more than 100% have received the first dose and 71% are fully vaccinated. In the 18-44 group, 82% are covered with at least the first dose.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Monday told the Bombay High Court that it does not anticipate a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the city as the vaccination drive is going on smoothly, with over 44.6 lakh people fully vaccinated and 86 More than a million people have been vaccinated. Got the first dose.
BMC’s lawyer Anil Sakhare also told the High Court that so far 2,586 bed-ridden people have been given both doses of the Kovid-19 vaccine, while 3,942 such people have received it for the first time.
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Work is on. It is running smoothly. Now, there is no shortage of vaccines either. Mumbai is safe. Sakhare said that we do not see the third wave (of Kovid-19). A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Dutta and Justice GS Kulkarni was hearing a PIL filed by advocates Dhriti Kapadia and Kunal Tiwari earlier this year, directing both the central and Maharashtra governments to introduce door-to-door vaccination for senior citizens. was demanded to be given. 75 years of age and over, specially-abled people and those who are bedridden.
The petition states that such people will not be in a position to step out of their homes to go to the vaccination centres.
The central government had earlier said that it would not be able to start the door-to-door vaccination programme, but it was extended last month.
The Maharashtra government said in August that it would launch the campaign and started house-to-door vaccination of bed-ridden people as a pilot project.
Kapadia told the HC on Monday that the purpose of filing the PIL had been served as now the Center has also formulated a policy to vaccinate such people at their homes.
The court then, while disposing of the PIL, said, we are now happy that these people are also not deprived of the vaccine for Kovid-19.
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