MUMBAI: Pregnant women will be administered COVID-19 vaccines at 35 inoculation centres in Mumbai from July 15, the city civic body said on Wednesday.
A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) spokesperson said pregnant women will be given priority while administering jabs at these 35 designated vaccination centres.
On the recommendation of "National Vaccination Technical Advisory Group '' and "National Expert Group" on COVID-19 vaccination, the Union government has added pregnant women in the inoculation list, a BMC release said.
Pregnant women infected with COVID-19, who have been treated with monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma, can be vaccinated after 12 weeks of recovery, the civic body said.
According to the BMC's health department, expectant mothers are more likely to catch a severe infection of COVID-19 than other women.
Also, pregnant women infected with COVID-19 have a higher rate of premature delivery.
A total of 62,33,629 citizens have been inoculated against coronavirus in the metropolis till Wednesday.
Of these, 13,68,580 beneficiaries have received the second dose as well, the BMC said.
Presently, Mumbai has 407 active COVID-19 vaccination centres - 286 of the BMC, 20 run by the Maharashtra government and 101 private centres.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported 8,602 new coronavirus positive cases and 170 deaths on Wednesday, taking the caseload to 61,81,247 and toll to 1,26,390, a health department official said.
On Tuesday, the state had reported 7,243 cases and 196 fatalities.
A total of 6,067 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, while the number of recoveries rose to 59,44,801.
Maharashtra's recovery rate is 96.17 per cent, while thefatality rate is 2.04 per cent, the official said.
Out of the 4,46,09,276 COVID-19 tests done so far, 2,26,163 were conducted in the last 24 hours and presently.
The current positivity rate is 13.86 per cent.
At present, 5,80,771 people are in home quarantine and 4,309 others in institutional quarantine across the state.
There are 1,06,764 active COVID-19 cases.
The highest 17,389 active patients are in Pune district, followed by Thane and Mumbai with 16,096 and 11,088 patients, respectively.
Of the total 59,44,801 recovered patients, the highest number of 10,36,081 are from Pune district, followed by Mumbai and Thane with 7,00,185 and 5,59,895 cases, respectively, the health department said.
In Mumbai, 619 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 7,29,263, and the death toll increased to 15,654 with 10 fresh fatalities.
The official said that 358 new cases tested positive in Pune city limits, which pushed its overall tally to 4,99,121, while the fatality count jumped to 8,561 with eight fatalities.
According to the officials, Nagpur, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Nashik, Aurangabad and Amravati municipal corporation areas reported 16, 219, 65, 14 and four new COVID-19 cases, respectively.
In Mumbai circle, which includes Mumbai and its satellite townships, 1,801 persons tested positive, which pushed the tally to 16,19,883, while 31 fresh fatalities took the death toll to 33,119.
In Pune circle, 2,475 new COVID-19 cases were found, pushing the tally of cases to 14,55,629, while 45 fresh fatalities took the toll to 27,196.
With 655 new cases and nine fresh deaths, the tally in Nashik circle rose to 8,99,321 and fatality count to 17,676.
In Kolhapur circle, 3,076 new cases were reported.
With this, its overall infection count rose to 4,59,207, while the death toll increased to 12,712 as 52 persons succumbed to the infection.
Nagpur circle added 208 cases and six fatalities.
The overall tally there is 7,70,003 and death toll is 13,632.
Aurangabad circle's caseload is now 2,82,928 and death toll 6,620; Latur circle's caseload is 3,38,807 and death toll 9,262; Akola circle's caseload is 3,55,323 and death toll is 6,055, the official said.
The coronavirus figures in Maharashtra are as follows: Total cases 61,81,247; new cases 8,602; death toll 1,26,390; recoveries 59,44,801; active cases 1,06,764; new tests 2,26,163.