Shawdesh dEsk:

Three hundred and one days after the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination programme was rolled out on January 16,  Mumbai achieved 100% first dose coverage on Saturday, November 13, Hindustan Times reported.

By 10pm Saturday, the city had overshot its target to vaccinate the eligible adult population of 9,236,546 with at least one dose by 0.18% and administered 9,253,647 first doses and 6,033,148 double doses, according to the Central government’s CoWin dashboard, taking the city’s full vaccination coverage to 65%.

To be sure, Mumbai may have statistically achieved the milestone of 100% first dose coverage, but the city will have to administer many more doses to truly cover its entire adult population.

The reason: An estimated 10-20% people who have got the Covid-19 vaccine in Mumbai are likely to be from other parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) or the rest of Maharashtra.

On Friday, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Covid-19 cases were not only surging in eastern European countries with lower vaccination rates, but also in western Europe, which is among the world’s highest vaccinated geographies