COVID vaccination restarted in 62 Private hospitals in Mumbai

New Delhi: Maharashtra is witnessing a double whammy of Covid Pandemic in the country. On the one hand, the cases of corona are increasing continuously, due to which the situation of lockdown in the state has arisen again.

Vaccination restarted in Mumbai:

On the other hand, many vaccination centers in Mumbai were closed due to lack of vaccine. Now news is coming that vaccine has been provided at these centers. After this, vaccination work has started in 62 out of total 71 private vaccination centers from Monday.

In Mumbai, 49 civil and government-run institutions have been designated as vaccine centers, while corona vaccination was arranged in 71 private hospitals. These 71 centers were closed two days ago due to lack of vaccine.

99,000 doses received:

BMC said in a statement, '99,000 doses were received late on the night of 9 April. On April 10, 1,34,970 doses were received. A total of 2,33,970 doses have been provided to BMC in the last two days. The civic body has given some stock to private hospitals. Vaccination started in 62 out of 71 private hospitals from 12 April. Vaccine dose will be delivered in other centers also by this evening.

About 40 thousand to 50 thousand people are being vaccinated daily in Mumbai. Work was stopped at 71 private centers on 10 April and 11 April due to lack of vaccines. However, vaccination continued in government hospitals. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had announced that the re-vaccination in private hospitals would be started only after the civil hospitals received adequate doses of the vaccine.

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope recently said that there is a huge shortage of vaccine in the state, despite this the central government has given only seven and a half lakh doses of vaccine to the state. Tope claimed that while states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Haryana have been given more vaccine doses.

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