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More than 10 lakh beneficiaries vaccinated in Maharashtra; Mumbai nears 2 lakh-mark

For the phase 1, around eight lakh healthcare workers in Maharashtra had registered for the COVID-19 vaccine, while registration for the second phase targeting frontline workers is still on.

More than 10 lakh beneficiaries vaccinated in Maharashtra; Mumbai nears 2 lakh-mark
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A total of 10 lakh healthcare and frontline workers in Maharashtra have been given the COVID-19 vaccinations as on Tuesday, February 23, according to a data released by the stated health department.

On Monday, February 22, 57,367 people had taken the vaccine, whereas there was a sharp drop in turnouts on Tuesday, February 23 as 42,319 workers were inoculated across the state. With this, the state's overall tally of inoculations reaches to 10,28,271, an official said.

Of those who got the vaccine jabs during the day, 30,789 received the first dose, comprising 23,018 frontline and 7,771 health workers, whereas 11,530 got the second dose.

Meanwhile, in Mumbai, 88 per cent of the 11,600 scheduled people took the shot. With 10,257 taking the vaccine on Tuesday, the city is on the verge of completing two lakh vaccinations.

Mumbai, on Tuesday, marked 30 vaccination days, with 3,736 healthcare workers and 6,494 frontliners getting the shot. So far, 1.9 lakh people have been inoculated in Mumbai. The city has received almost two lakh registrations of healthcare workers and an equal number of frontline workers for second phase.

For the phase 1, around eight lakh healthcare workers in Maharashtra had registered for the COVID-19 vaccine, while registration for the second phase targeting frontline workers is still on.

A lot of queries from healthcare workers who haven’t been able to register themselves have started coming up. But as the Co-WIN app has stopped accepting new registrations for healthcare workers, those enquires from workers were rejected, said an official.

Moreover, the Union health ministry asked Maharashtra and other states -- Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and Chhattisgarh -- to expedite the vaccination of healthcare and frontline workers so as to confer immunity in the shortest possible time-frame in the wake of a rising trend of COVID-19 cases and positively rate in some districts.

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