50% of BEST employees vaccinated

Nearly 16,000 frontline workers which constitute 50 percent employee strength of the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking, have received dosages of the COVID-19 vaccine in the past fourteen days.

Officials of the transport undertaking said, the BEST management and BMC are jointly working in order to vaccinate maximum number of frontline workers.

"Now that cases are rising again the BMC have also started to give special focus on our frontline workers, as they have tend to become the lifeline of Mumbai," Dr. Anil Kumar Singhal - BEST Chief Medical Officer (CMO) told FPJ. He also mentioned the BMC has planned to keep a special vaccination drive for the BEST frontline workers.