Mumbai reopened schools for Classes 8-12 earlier this week. BMC's additional commissioner Suresh Kakani told the daily that it is fully prepared to vaccinate the children and is only waiting for the ICMR's approval and guidelines.
Kakani said the adults' immunisation has almost completed leading to less chaos for children's vaccination. Almost 90% of the eligible population in the city (ages 18 and above) have taken at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
At present, Mumbai has 325 vaccination centres and around one million children are between the age group of 12 and 17 years.
Therefore this will lead to less chaotic situation at the vaccination centres as 90% of adults have already received a single Covid-19 vaccine dose.