Mumbai: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said the drive vaccination against Covid-19 will continue in Civic and Government centers in Mumbai from Saturday because new stocks of more than 1.6 lakh doses have arrived.
In a statement issued on Friday, BMC said 1,60,240 vaccine doses arrived on Thursday night, consisting of 1.5 lakh covishield and 10,240 covaxin vaccines.
The Civic body has suspended inoculation drive for two days on Thursday and Friday after the centers carried out by the Civic body and state governments running out of doses.
It must suspend the drive on 8 and 9 July also for the same reason.
In accordance with BMC, 82,43,789 people have been given a vaccine in the city of Metropolis so far, with 20,83,893 beneficiaries of getting the second dose too.
At present, there are 438 Covid-19 vaccination centers in Mumbai, where 296 is operated by BMC, 19 by the state government and 123 by private entities.
The 1.6L covid vaccine dose arrived in Mumbai
