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BMC to find out how many Mumbaikars yet to get 2nd dose of Covid-19 vaccination
Updated On: 16 December, 2021 07:26 AM IST | Mumbai | Somita Pal
To get a clear picture about vax status of citizens, civic body comes up with questionnaire to be sent to all wards; move initiated as people from outside the city, too, have got their doses here
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A health worker administers a dose of vaccine to a woman at BYL Nair Hospital. Pic/Ashish Raje
In a bid to peg how many Mumbaikars are yet to take the second dose of the COVID vaccine, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is set to launch an initiative wherein it will send questionnaires to its ward offices as well as vaccination centres. The questionnaire will ask citizens their name, age, contact number as well as if they are residents of the city and where they got their first dose of vaccine from. This initiative was necessitated as a number of people who are not from Mumbai have also got their vaccine doses here, making it difficult for the civic body to gauge the real picture when it comes to its citizens.
Suresh Kakani, additional commissioner, BMC, said, “In Mumbai, as per our records, there are close to 6.66 lakh beneficiaries who are yet to take their second dose of Covishield and 66,000 who are supposed to take the second dose of Covaxin. However, the records can be misleading as many of them are not residents of Mumbai. To find the actual number of Mumbaikars awaiting their second dose, we thought of this mechanism.”
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