TMC to complete vaccination of health, frontline workers by Feb 15

THANE : The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) plans to complete the vaccination of over 35,390 health workers and frontline workers till February 15. The corporation has so far vaccinated 7,668 health workers while the vaccination for frontline workers began on Monday. TMC will also increase the number of centres from 10 to 20 after receiving permission from the state government, to target 2,000 vaccinations daily.

timing, is being carried out through the app.

However another official said that the Centre is yet to activate the ‘session live’ option for frontline workers on the app which could delay the phase 2 of vaccination drive. “The Union health ministry is yet to make the session live on COWIN app. If they do it on late Monday night, we may start vaccination for frontline workers as well,” said a senior official.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported 1,948 Covid-19 cases on Monday, taking the state’s tally to 2,028,347. The active caseload stood at 43,701. With 27 fatalities, the death toll reached 51,109 (with 2.52% case fatality rate ). Of the 27 deaths reported, 15 occurred in the past 48 hours, while six are from last week. The remaining six deaths are from the period before last week. On Monday, 3,289 patients were discharged, taking the tally of recovered patients to 1,932,294 in the state, after which the recovery rate has improved to 95.26%. The state has tested 14,656,223 samples so far.