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MUMBAI: In approximately six months since the Covid-19 vaccination drive started across India, 20.4% of the 18-plus population in Maharashtra has got at least one shot of the vaccine.
Statistics show that 18,623,132 or 1.8 crore of Maharashtra s 91,435,000 population eligible for the vaccine have got at least one shot of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The number is higher in Mumbai, where 28,13,035 have taken the first shot. “Mumbai has a population of 1.3 crore, so we believe over 25% of the eligible people have taken the vaccine,” said BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani.
A mathematical analysis done by UK mathematician Murad Banaji a few weeks back showed that the number of Covid-19 deaths among the elderly 60-plus population in Mumbai had dropped (in comparison to the first wave) due to vaccination.
This is part of the BBMP’s plan to set up triage centres in all the 198 wards so that the pandemic can be managed efficiently at the ward level. Nodal officers from each ward will monitor these centres.