, India’s leading cinema chain, is carrying out a drive to inoculate 10,000 employees and their dependents across 70 cities in India.
The concerted efforts are happening as productions are now allowed to resume in Mumbai, where Bollywood is headquartered. On June 6, Uddhav Thackeray, chief minister of Maharashtra, the western Indian state of which Mumbai is the capital, held a virtual meeting with industry stakeholders.
On Tuesday, India officially reported 86,498 new coronavirus cases, the lowest in two months, and some 1.3 million active cases, according to government figures. There have been a total of 351,000 deaths, with 2,123 of those in the last 24 hours. The official numbers for infections and deaths are thought to be very significant underestimates.
Maharashtra has 11,202 active cases, with 340 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country has administered 240 million vaccine doses so far to its population of 1.3 billion. The stated aim is to get every adult vaccinated by the end of 2021.