MUMBAI: After crossing 1 lakh vaccinations on three consecutive days, the drive slowed in the city on Thursday due to shortage of doses.
A drop in jabs was witnessed in the state too.
State officials said stocks are trickling in and Maharashtra has been assured 1.2 crore doses in July.
Daily vaccinations dropped by 42% in Mumbai to 64,378 on Thursday compared to the previous day’s high of 1.1 lakh, and are likely to remain sluggish on Friday as centres will function for three hours between 2pm and 5pm.
The city has been allotted over 2 lakh doses that are expected to arrive from Pune early on Friday.
After recording an all-time high of 6.2 lakh vaccinations on Wednesday, shots in Maharashtra dropped to 4.2 lakh on Thursday, shows CoWin data.
N Ramaswami, commissioner, National Health Mission, said around 10 lakh doses were distributed to districts on Thursday.
“In addition, we are expected to get 1.2 crore vaccine doses in July which will include the private sector’s quota too,” he said.
For June, he said, stocks in lakhs will continue.
Civic officials said they will receive 2.4 lakh doses of Covishield by Friday morning.
“It takes time to distribute it to all the centres, so we have scheduled vaccination from 2pm today,” said Dr Mangala Gomare, BMC’s executive health officer.
There are 295 public vaccination centres and representatives from each physically collect the vaccine vials from BMC’s vaccine depot in Kanjurmarg.
Gomare said vaccination will be held as per schedule on Saturday.
Across wards, many people were disappointed to find the centres shut.
In M-west (Chembur, Tilaknagar) ward, only four of the nine centres could function.
The ward had around 500 doses which were exhausted by the end of the day.
There may not be any vaccination at some of the centres on Friday, said Dr Bhupendra Patil, ward medical officer of health.
Only 50% of the centres worked at the P-South (Goregaon) ward.
The city has given 48.6 lakh doses so far, including to 3,179 lactating mothers and 4,922 students flying abroad.
In the last two days, the BMC also given shots to eight people, including inmates from Arthur road jail and differently abled, who didn’t have identity documents.
In Maharashtra, 2.9crore doses have been administered.
After three days of lakh+ shots, jabs fall to 64k in Mumbai
