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Mumbai receives import bids for Sputnik, preps for 60-day vaccination drive

Mumbai estimates to spend 7 billion rupees to buy shots informed municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal.

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2 min read Last Updated : May 19 2021 | 12:53 PM IST

Mumbai’s municipality has received bids to import 10 million Sputnik vaccines and expects more proposals as authorities attempt an ambitious plan to vaccinate every resident of the world’s second-most densely packed city within two months.

India’s financial capital estimates to spend about 7 billion rupees ($96 million) to buy the shots, Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal told Bloomberg TV in an interview on Wednesday. Faster vaccinations could help avert a third wave of the coronavirus, which could cost the city above 8 billion rupees just to run its temporary hospitals created to tackle a surge in patients.

Mumbai has been

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