PUNE: The PMC’s drive-in vaccination programme is likely to be expanded to include more locations.
Officials said the Hadapsar drive-in site — started a week ago — has been seeing good turnouts with at least 40 daily vaccinations.
Requests have come in for more such sites, the officials added.
“More drive-in sites will be allowed based on the location.
The PMC will check if potential locations have enough parking space,” Suryakant Deokar, the PMC’s immunization officer, said.
Drive-in vaccination centres have been picking up in other major cities too, with beneficiaries saying these centres don’t see crowding.
Beneficiaries are administered jabs while seated in their cars.
People also have to wait in their cars for 30 minutes after the jab for observation.
“It is very easy to get a jab at the Hadapsar drive-in centre,” said Snehal Kale, medical officer with the PMC’s Hadapsar-Mundhwa ward office.
“Many beneficiaries from nearby locations are now coming to get their jabs at the centre,” she added.
Kale said the Hadapsar drive-in site also has a regular vaccination centre.