On Thursday, vaccination could not take place at 25 Covid vaccine centres due to a shortage of doses.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in a press release, said the jabs couldn’t be administered at 25 of the 71 approved vaccination centres as the doses had run out of stock at these private facilities.
However, doses were given to eligible beneficiaries at the remaining centres, but the current stock will last only for a day and the civic body is continuously making efforts to procure more shots, the release said.
At present, the civic body has activated 120 COVID-19 vaccination centres, 49 of them run by the Maharashtra government and the BMC, across Mumbai, it said.
The release said 40,000 to 50,000 people are given jabs at these centres every day.
The BMC said it had received 17,09,550 vaccine doses until April 7. Of those, 15,61,420 vaccine doses have been administered.
According to the civic body release, of the balance stock (1,48,130), 44,810 are kept for the second dose as per the state government’s directive.
It means 1,03,320, doses were available on Thursday morning and of those 40,000 to 50,000 vaccine doses used during the day, the release said.
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