21 lakh get the first jab in city, 1.5 crore remain
ByVinay DalviVinay Dalvi / Updated: May 16, 2021, 06:00 IST
BMC has floated global tenders for 1 crore
vaccines, the civic body has so far given around 21 lakh first vaccine doses and 7 lakh second doses in the city. The state, overall, has inoculated around 2 crore people with the maximum doses being given in Mumbai, followed by
Pune where 26 lakh doses, including six lakh first jabs, have been administered. Fourteen lakh doses have been given in Thane and 11 lakh doses in Nagpur. About 1.5 lakh doses were given in
Gadchiroli district, the least in the district.
The state government had recently announced that due to the shortage of doses it was putting of the inoculation drive for people in the 18-44 age group as some doses had been kept aside for giving second shots to those who had received the first one.