Will Frame Door-To-Door Vaccination Policy In One Week: Maharashtra To Court

The state's counsel, Geeta Shastri, submitted a draft policy before a bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni.

The Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court on Tuesday that it will finalise within a week its policy on starting door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination drives for the elderly, disabled persons and those who are bedridden and unable to visit the inoculation centres. The state's counsel, Geeta Shastri, submitted a draft policy before a bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni. The state had constituted a special task force comprising experts and stakeholders to come up with such a policy, Shastri said. While details of the policy could not be made public yet, the same will be finalised within a week and submitted before the court, she said.