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Mumbai Covid-19: With 24X7 operation, BMC aims for 1 lakh vaccine shots daily
As fresh Covid-19 infections are on the rise in Mumbai, the civic body is tightening its surveillance.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday said vaccination at private centres under its jurisdiction will go round the clock from now as the Centre has approved the civic body's proposal in this regard. BMC has requested the Centre to make necessary changes to its vaccination registration website Co-Win to facilitate 24x7 registration. The Centre, a few days ago, allowed 24 hours vaccination across the country. With this, 1 lakh people will be vaccinated every day in the BMC area, as with the current timing of 8-12 hours, around 35,000-40,000 people are getting vaccinated.
As fresh Covid-19 infections are on the rise in Mumbai, the civic body is tightening its surveillance. Around 90 per cent of the new cases of Covid-19 in Mumbai in the last two months were recorded in housing societies, it said adding that strict action will be sanctioned against the residents of such societies who violate Covid-19 norms.
BMC also said that residential buildings with more than five coronavirus patients will be sealed to bar any movement and buildings with less than five patients will not be sealed entirely but the floors on which the patients reside will be sealed. As of March 9, a total of 2,762 floors have been sealed in buildings to bar movement of 4,183 coronavirus patients.
Maharashtra reported 9,927 fresh cases on Tuesday, taking the tally of infected people to 2,238,398. The capital city of Mumbai reported 1,012 new cases on Tuesday, continuing its week-long trend of reporting more than 1,000 cases a day.
The BMC has been trying to enforce Covid-19 preventative behaviour to curb the number of cases. In a twitter post on March 9, the civic body had jokingly threatened to “gatecrash" weddings that flout pronounced norms for the “safety of Mumbai”.
