Defaulters who missed the date will have to wait till the end of first phase

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has now decided to vaccinate those registered healthcare workers (HCWs) in the next immunisation date who will miss their first round of the vaccination. Moreover the first phase of immunisation in the city will be completed in a month or more than that. Civic officials said due to technical glitch in the CoWin application ver y less number of HCWs had turned to the vaccination centres and moreover now the central government has directed to conduct vaccination drive four days a week with limited number of beneficiaries.

BMC could only inoculate 1,926 of 4,000 HCWs on the day 1 (Januar y 16) of the vaccination drive stating most of the HCWs were informed at the last minutes due to which less than 50 per cent of them came for ward to get immunise. “Currently the numbers are less but it will increase gradually once the application start functioning properly through which messages will be send directly to the HCWs just a day or two days before,” said Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner, BMC. Meanwhile, the defaulters who have missed their day of getting vaccinated will be given another date once the first phase is completed as it will not create any confusion or problem in the ongoing process.