Meanwhile, a total of 12,66,387 beneficiaries have been inoculated so far, out of which 1,56,456 have been fully vaccinated with both doses.
A citizen gets vaccinated at Nair Hospital on Friday. Pic/Ashish Raje
Day 2 two of the vaccination drive for those aged 45 and above had the same response as Day 1. On Friday, too, about 39,000-odd beneficiaries were vaccinated, whereas the total turnout, including that of senior citizens, health and frontline workers was 57,390 - way lower than what the BMC aims to achieve daily. The civic commissioner had last week given a diktat that as many as 1 lakh citizens daily should be inoculated.
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Meanwhile, a total of 12,66,387 beneficiaries have been inoculated so far, out of which 1,56,456 have been fully vaccinated with both doses.
With the BMC starting to give both Covishield and Covaxin shots in the city, according to BMC’s data, seven adverse effects were reported on Friday after taking the Covishield jab, whereas none were reported after Covaxin. However, the adverse effects cases were minor, civic doctors said.
There were 116 vaccination centres that were operational and 212 units were functioning on Friday with a capacity of 21,200.
The total turnout of senior citizens was 12,592, whereas that of those aged 45 and above was 39,482 and the number of health care workers who were administered vaccine shots was 1,825. Further, the number of front line workers vaccinated who took their first and second dose was 3,491.
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