In the last three days, Maharashtra has vaccinated 58,131 senior citizens and those above 45 with co-morbidities. While looking at the overwhelming response of citizens in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started vaccination centres in 13 new private hospitals in the city from today.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''AIR Correspondent reports, although crowd management remained an issue in some of the public vaccination centres in Mumbai due to on-spot registration, most recipients and hospitals felt that the process seemed smoother today. Due to the overwhelming response, BMC has decided to add 13 new private hospitals to the list of vaccination centres from today. However, fearing crowds, most private hospital managements plan to take only registered patients and not allow walk-in recipients for the time being.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar today got her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation's Jumbo COVID Vaccination Center at Bandra-Kurla complex. She also spoke to senior citizens at the COVID vaccination centre at BKC. Speaking to All India Radio, Pednekar appealed to those eligible to go and get vaccinated and said that as the mayor and corporator of Mumbai, she will create awareness among citizens for COVID-19 vaccination.</span><br />
News On AIR | March 4, 2021 10:05 PM
Maharashtra vaccinates 58,131 people so far in 2nd phase of vaccination