In a welcoming news, Mumbai becomes the first mega city to fully vaccinate its adult population 15 months after the inoculation drive against COVID-19 commenced.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday, April 5, declared that Mumbai reached the 100 per cent mark for double vaccinated adults.
All 92,36,000 of the eligible population, those above 18 years of age, for two doses have received both the doses of vaccination. The 50 per cent mark was crossed in October 2021, BMC stated.
This comes at a time when the Maharashtra government lifted the last remaining curbs, including the wearing of masks, from April 1. Moreover, the vaccination is no longer a requirement to travel in public transport or to visit restaurants and other public places.
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The civic body data further mentioned that overall, 20,586,041 doses of vaccines have been administered in the city by both private and public vaccination centres of which 4,15,505 are the third dose known as precautionary dose or booster shots. At present, healthcare and frontline workers along with those above 60 years of age are eligible for the booster dose.
However, now the civic body is planning to give the third dose to the adult population and are awaiting further directions from the government on it.
For population below 18 years of age, the BMC said 48% population in 15-18 years of age are fully vaccinated and 10% partially vaccinated in 12-15 age group. The inoculation for the adolescent had begun earlier this year in phases.
The vaccination drive had started in January 2021 in phases wherein healthcare workers were first made eligible for the vaccine followed by frontline workers. From March 2021, all senior citizens were made eligible for the vaccine. Later, since May 2021, all citizens above 18 years of age were made eligible for the jab.
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