Scheduled to be held between September 18 to 23, the civic body is aiming at administrating doses to 8.90 lakh, children under five years of age, for which they have set up more than 4000 booths.
Amid the drop in Covid cases in Mumbai, there has been a rise in monsoon ailments in the last seven days. As per data provided by the civic health department, the city has recorded 118 cases of malaria, followed by 83 cases of gastroenteritis and 51 of dengue between September 5-11.
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MUMBAI: A day after the Centre announced vaccination for all above 18 years of age, the drive remained badly hit in the city due to vaccine stockouts. On Tuesday, 49 of the city’s 129 vaccination centres remained shut due to unavailability of vaccines.
Some of the major public vaccination centres such as BKC jumbo and Mulund jumbo had to shut their gates after vaccines ran out in a few hours. Of the 49 centres that could not vaccinate, 38 were private, six BMC and five state centres. Dr Mangala Gomare, BMC executive health officer, said the city had received 1.1 lakh doses on Tuesday but these would mainly be distributed among the public centres doing free vaccination.