On Monday, October 4, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) told the Bombay High Court that it does not apprehend a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city as the vaccination drive is going on smoothly.
This statement comes as the civic body revealed that over 42 lakh people have been fully vaccinated and over 82 lakh people have received their first dose.
BMC counsel Anil Sakhare told HC that 2,586 bed-ridden people have so far been administered both doses of coronavirus vaccine while 3,942 such people have got the first jab.
"The work is on. It is going on smoothly. Now, there is no shortage of vaccines too. Mumbai is safe. We do not see a third wave of the COVID-19 coming," Sakhare was quoted as saying by PTI.
The remarks were made when a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni was hearing public interest litigation filed by advocates Dhruti Kapadia and Kunal Tiwari earlier this year, seeking a direction to both the Union and Maharashtra governments to start door-to-door vaccination for senior citizens aged 75 and above, specially-abled people and those who are bed-ridden.
The plea said such people would not be in a position to step out of their houses to go to the vaccination centres and be inoculated.
The Union government had earlier said it would not be able to start a door-to-door vaccination programme, but last month gave a go-ahead to it.
However, the Maharashtra government in August said it would initiate the drive and had started door-to-door vaccination of bed-ridden people as a pilot project.
On Monday, Kapadia told the HC that the purpose of filing the PIL was served as now even the Centre has framed a policy to vaccinate such people at their homes.
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