Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Friday said the corporators in the city will receive vaccine against COVID-19 from March 1. However, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) administration said that no such guidelines have been received from the government so far.
Mayor Kishori Pednekar’s statement came after a Shiv Sena corporator demanded that the COVID-19 vaccine be given even to the public representatives. However, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC said the civic body has received no such directive.
“I have registered myself with the civic body and submitted the necessary documents and from March 1, public representatives will also be given the vaccine shots,” Pednekar said on Friday.
However, a senior BMC official said, “The names are being registered under the category of senior citizens and people with co-morbidities for the third phase. As the majority of the corporators fall in the category of over 50, they will be eligible to be administered the shot. But there are no specific instructions received to give shots to the public representatives and even the dates for the third phase have not yet been communicated to us.”
With 6,112 COVID-19 cases on Friday, the caseload in Maharashtra has climbed to 20,87,632, while 44 fatalities took the death toll to 51,713.
Surjitt Sahani
