Mumbai: Close with 10 lakh people vaccinated against Covid in the state on Saturday, including more than 1.2 lakh in Mumbai.
About 6.8 doses of crore vaccines have been given in the state since January 16, with 38.9% of the eligible population in Maharashtra has taken at least one shot.
Health officials said they hoped to get more shares from the center of this week, which should allow a large number of people to vaccinate in one day.
On September 8, the state managed to vaccinate almost 15.2 lakh people – the highest number in one day.
In Mumbai, the BMC vaccine update showed 1.04 crore doses had been disbursed so far while the Cowin Union Portal government placed the number at 1.09 crore.
On Saturday, 65,061 people were vaccinated in public centers, while the rest (54,746) were vaccinated in private centers on Friday and Saturday.
“We have adequate doses to vaccinate a large number of people in the next few days,” said the Supplementary Municipal Commissioner BMC Suresh Kakani.
The public vaccination center will be closed on Sundays.
“We hope to get more shares earlier this week and vaccinate the maximum number of people every day,” Kakani added.
On Friday, which is a common holiday on Ganesh Chaturthi, there is no vaccination held in public centers, but 11,221 took JAB in the private sector.
In all of Maharashtra, 1.2 Lakh people took a vaccine on Friday.