VACCINATION ABOVE 45 YEARS CAME TO A HALT IN MUMBAI

Owing to the shortage of jabs, vaccination of the people above 45 years in Mumbai came to a halt on Monday. However, vaccination for the people in the age group of 18 to 44 years went on smoothly. “Citizens in the 18-44 age group will be allowed in the vaccination centres based on the slots assigned to them after registration on CO-WIN application. Due to the shortage of doses, vaccination for the people above 45 years will not be conducted on Monday,” the BMC stated.

Amid the dearth of vaccine supplies and oxygen cylinders, BMC announced that vaccination centres for people above the age of 45 to be closed for the fourth consecutive day. “Our highest single day testing from March 2020 till 10th Feb 2021 (when the second wave hit Mumbai) was 24500. However, immediately thereafter, our testing was more than doubled and touched 56000 tests on a single day in April 2021. Our average daily testing in April was nearly 44000 per day,” said I.S Chahal, Municipal Commissioner, BMC.

“It has been observed that the testing figures have fallen in the last few days. It’s likely to fall further during weekends. Our aggressive testing policy has resulted in a reduction of positivity rate,” added Chahal.

He said, “The number of people tested is less since it was the weekend. Also, since the recovery rate is increasing, it means the spread of the virus has slowed down.”