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MUMBAI: Congress MLA from Bandra (East) Zeeshan Siddique has demanded that the BMC must allow bikes and auto rickshaws into drive-in vaccination centres.
“Many drive-in vaccination centres are being opened in Mumbai which is a positive step but many Mumbaikars don’t have the luxury of owning a car and so I have written to the BMC Commissioner to allow citizens on bikes & rickshaws also to get vaccinated following Covid norms!” Zeeshan tweeted on Thursday.
Following the success of its first drive-in vaccination centre within a civic parking lot in Dadar, the BMC had decided to set up one such facility for citizens above 60 years of age in the other six administrative zones too.
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Mumbai s civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday launched the city s first drive-in vaccination center where specially-abled people and senior citizens can get vaccine doses while sitting in a vehicle, without standing in a queue.
Earlier, the facility had been set up in a parking lot at Kohinoor Tower in Dadar area. The centre has been set up for senior citizens and differently abled persons, who would drive into the parking lot from one entry, receive a vaccine while being in the car and move out through a different exit point. Apart from the drive-in services, the Kohinoor facility also has a walk-in set-up where beneficiaries above 45 years of age can get their vaccine by walking in.
Mumbai To Get Drive-In Vaccination Centres In Every Zone Within 24 Hours Mumbai To Get Drive-In Vaccination Centres In Every Zone Within 24 Hours Drive-in vaccination centres will be set up in big open grounds such as the Andheri Sports Club ground, Cooperage ground, Shivaji Stadium, Oval Maidan, Brabourne stadium, MIG ground, MCA ground, Reliance JIO garden or even the Wankhede stadium, the Brihanmumbai Corporation has said.
Maharashtra got its first drive-in vaccination centre this week at Dadar.
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Mumbai will have more drive-in vaccination centres, maybe as soon as within 24 hours. That is the deadline given by the city s civic body to its officials, who were told to have it ready in each administrative zone. The centres will cater to senior citizens and specially-abled people. The civic body has decided to keep the blueprint ready even though the state, like many others, is struggling with limited supply of the vaccine.