As the nationwide a drive to administer booster doses to the senior citizens, healthcare and frontline workers, it has come to light that in Mumbai only 10,698 took their first shot on Day 1, January 10.
Of the total, 5,249 were healthcare workers, 1,823 frontline workers and 3,626 senior citizens.
According to the data revealed by the Brihanumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), nearly 1.82 lakh people are eligible for the precautionary dose.
In Mumbai, only 6% of the 88,892 eligible healthcare workers, 2.2% of eligible frontline workers (80,969), and 30% of eligible senior citizens with co-morbidities (12,139) turned up yesterday. In all, 5.7% of the eligible beneficiaries in the city (186,088) turned up to take the shots.
However, it is pertinent to note that Mumbai administered the highest number of boosters (10,698) in the state, followed by Pune (6,638) and Thane (4,692).
The booster dose is available to citizens who received their second dose 39 weeks or nine months ago.
Meanwhile, in Navi Mumbai, 621 beneficiaries were given the booster dose. The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) had organised the vaccination drive at General hospitals of NMMC at Vashi, Nerul and Airoli and Mother and Child hospital in Turbhe along with all the 23 primary civic health centers. Of them, 299 were health care workers (HCW), 206 were front line workers (FLW) and 116 beneficiaries were citizens above the age of 60.
Besides, Maharashtra administered 49,307 booster doses to health care workers, frontline workers and senior citizens on Monday, January 10. The state has 9,35,810 eligible beneficiaries — health care, frontline workers and the citizens over 60 years of age (with co-morbidities) — which means that the state administered the booster dose to 5.2% of them on Day 1.
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