In an address to state on Sunday, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray announced that fully vaccinated members of public will be allowed to travel on Mumbai’s local trains from the said date. Also Read | Fully vaccinated people can travel on local trains from August 15: Thackeray“We have around 1.9 million people in Mumbai who are fully vaccinated, and 5.6 million who have received their first dose. However, local trains also run in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), in areas under which, 1.2 million people are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. So, around 3 million people will be allowed to board local trains since they are fully vaccinated,” BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said on Monday, a day after Thackeray’s announcement. A person is considered to be “fully vaccinated” against the viral disease 15 days after being administered the second vaccine dose.

Source: Hindustan Times August 10, 2021 02:03 UTC