As a outcome of extreme vaccine shortage, vaccination centres across the city of Mumbai will stay shut via the weekend and the vaccination drive will only resume from Monday, a major official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) told the TheSpuzz Online. The official stated that the persistent vaccine shortage in the city had forced the authorities to retain vaccination centres shut on Friday and in the absence of any scheduled vaccine provision for the weekend, the vaccination booths will only resume the drive from Monday onwards.
This is the second time in the month of July that vaccination had to be stopped in the city due to lag in vaccine supplies. Officials of the civic body have highlighted that the city has sufficient well being infrastructure and capacity to administer as numerous as one lakh doses a day but the city has only been administering half of its capacity due to vaccine shortage.
Despite repeated claims made by the central government about sufficient vaccine supplies, quite a few metropolitan cities like Mumbai burdened by enormous populations are reporting vaccine shortage and have had to cease vaccination totally on a quantity of occasions. It is to be noted that typical cumulative vaccination in the last couple of days has drastically decreased to about 40 lakh shots a day from the peak of 60 lakhs shots a day at the finish of June.
The vaccination drive had picked up a sustained momentum for a couple of days at the finish of June but the momentum petered out considering that the starting of this month. Apart from the vaccination shortage reported in big metropolitan cities like Bengaluru and Mumbai, reports of vaccine centres operating out of stocks have also began coming from the hinterlands of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the last couple of days, the Indian Express reported.