Mumbai To Go Big With Drive-In Vaccination, Civic Body Gives 24 Hours

Mumbai will have drive-in vaccination centres, maybe as soon as within 24 hours. That is the deadline  given by the city's civic body to its officials, who were told to have it ready in each administrative zone. Drive-in vaccination centres will be set up in big open grounds -- such as the Andheri Sports Club ground, Cooperage ground, Shivaji Stadium, Oval Maidan, Brabourne stadium, MIG ground, MCA ground, Reliance JIO garden or even the Wankhede stadium, the Brihanmumbai Corporation has said. Adequate and proper temporary shelter shall be provided for in the vaccination area to accommodate vaccination staff, arrangement for patients of AEFI, ambulance etc, the civic body has said. Maharashtra got its first drive-in vaccination centre this week at Dadar. The centre can vaccinate nearly 5000 people in a day with minimum risk of infection. The success of the project – meant initially for senior citizens and specially-abled people – pushed the civic body to adopt it for the country's financial capital.