Mumbai fully vaccinates 100% adult population against Covid-19, first major city to achieve feat

Authored by indianexpress.com and submitted by Lambu-Aata

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has announced that all eligible beneficiaries above the age of 18 in Mumbai have been fully vaccinated with two doses of Covid-19 vaccine. Mumbai has thus become the first major city in the country to fully vaccinate 100% of its citizens. It also has the highest vaccination coverage among all the 36 districts in Maharashtra.

By Tuesday, Mumbai vaccinated its entire adult population of 92.39 lakh people with two doses of Covid-19 vaccine, confirmed officials.

“So far, 1,02,96,917 first doses have been administered in the 18 plus segment, achieving 111 per cent vaccination of this age group. In the 12 plus population, the city has achieved 93 per cent vaccination,” an official said. “So far, 94,92,511 people have been given the second dose of the vaccine out of the originally targeted 1,02,44,843 people,” the official added.

“It is really a proud moment for us. Initially, we experienced lukewarm responses (to vaccination) but gradually, it peaked up. Now, we have over 350 vaccination centres where we have also roped in retired nurses for vaccination,” said BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani.

Mumbai crossed 50 per cent vaccination coverage last October. The city has so far administered 2.05 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses since the start of the mass immunisation programme in January 2021. Of which, 4.15 lakh are third doses (precautionary doses).

Willowy on April 9th, 2022 at 22:14 UTC »

There is absolutely no way for them to quantify this. Consider the amount of people arriving and departing Mumbai on any given day, and there is just no way.

ajamesv9307 on April 9th, 2022 at 19:27 UTC »

That’s insane as it is probably top 3 in terms of most populated city in the world with a population of 20 mil people. NYC has a population of 9 million

Patient_Signature467 on April 9th, 2022 at 16:07 UTC »

This is good news but I highly doubt they vaccinated every single person?