A central team today visited the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) COVID-19 vaccination centre in Mumbai to assess the current situation in the city. <br />''<br />''Two separate central teams have also arrived at Sangli and Solapur districts. <br />''<br />''The Central Government has constituted 50 high level teams for Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Punjab in view of the recent very large numbers of daily new COVID-19 cases. <br />''<br />''Joint Secretary of Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs Kunal Kumar is nodal officer for Maharashtra. <br />''<br />''Under his leadership teams are visiting 30 districts of Maharashtra.<br />'' <br />''Meanwhile, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope today said the Centre increased COVID-19 vaccine doses from 7 lakhs to 17 lakhs. <br />''<br />''Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, Tope said there is a tremendous shortage of vaccines in Mumbai, Sangli, Satara and Buldhana districts of the state. He said currently, the state has two more days of stock.<br />'' <br />''The Minister said, six lakh vaccines are being administered in a day and by going with this pace 40 lakh vaccine doses are needed for a week and one crore 60 lakh doses for a month. <br />''<br />''Tope informed that he and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar have spoken to Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and asked for more doses.<br />'' <br />''The Health Minister said the state government would raise issues of COVID-19 vaccine and Remedisivir drug shortages, supply of oxygen from nearby states and ventilator operational support before Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the virtual meet scheduled for today.<br />'' <br />''Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will attend a meeting on the Covid-19 situation in the state with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 6.30 pm today via video conferring.<br />'' <br />''Many vaccination centres in Maharashtra are being closed temporarily owing to the shortage of vaccines. <br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">A vaccination centre in Mahim, Fortis hospital in Mulund and Vashi Jumbo vaccination Center at ESIS hospital were temporarily shut as they faced shortage of vaccines to administer.</span><br />