Exclusive: No Covid-19 vaccination in Mumbai till Sunday; drive will resume from Monday, says BMC

The vaccination drive had picked up a sustained momentum for just a few days on the finish of June however the momentum petered out because the starting of this month.

On account of extreme vaccine scarcity, vaccination centres throughout town of Mumbai will stay shut by means of the weekend and the vaccination drive will solely resume from Monday, a prime official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) advised the Monetary Specific On-line. The official stated that the persistent vaccine scarcity within the metropolis had compelled the authorities to maintain vaccination centres shut on Friday and within the absence of any scheduled vaccine provision for the weekend, the vaccination cubicles will solely resume the drive from Monday onwards.

That is the second time within the month of July that vaccination needed to be stopped within the metropolis as a result of lag in vaccine provides. Officers of the civic physique have highlighted that town has sufficient well being infrastructure and capability to manage as many as one lakh doses a day however the metropolis has solely been administering half of its capability as a result of vaccine scarcity.

Regardless of repeated claims made by the central authorities about sufficient vaccine provides, a number of metropolitan cities like Mumbai burdened by enormous populations are reporting vaccine scarcity and have needed to cease vaccination utterly on quite a lot of events. It’s to be famous that common cumulative vaccination in the previous few days has drastically diminished to about 40 lakh pictures a day from the height of 60 lakhs pictures a day on the finish of June.

The vaccination drive had picked up a sustained momentum for just a few days on the finish of June however the momentum petered out because the starting of this month. Aside from the vaccination scarcity reported in massive metropolitan cities like Bengaluru and Mumbai, experiences of vaccine centres working out of shares have additionally began coming from the hinterlands of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the previous few days, the Indian Specific reported.