29 April,2021 09:07 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
A closed vaccination centre in Mumbai | Pic/Satej Shinde
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, on Thursday, announced that owing to unavailability of adequate vaccine stock, the vaccination drive in the city will not be conducted from April 30-May 2. Planned vaccination of citizens aged 18 years and above is also likely to start late.
Earlier, the BMC had notified that for the Phase 3 of the vaccination drive which allows everyone above 18 years to get inoculated, the available stock will be distributed only to the government and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) Covid Vaccination Centres and not be distributed to any private vaccination centres.
A vaccination centre in Mumbai | Pic/Sameer Abedi
The city has been witnessing shortage of vaccine from quite some time now with Mumbaikars standing in long queues outside vaccination centres in scorching heat and humidity only to be left disappointed.
Several people had earlier complained that at some of the 75 functional centres out of the total 135 in Mumbai, the vaccine stock got over within a couple of hours after the process began in the morning.
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