COVID-19 vaccination: Guidelines do not allow door-to-door drive, Centre tells Bombay HC

Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh said some state governments and municipal bodies were conducting door-to-door vaccination for special categories of citizens by ignoring advisory guidelines.

Mumbai: The Union government on Monday (June 14) told the Bombay High Court that its national guidelines do not at present allow a door-to-door drive to vaccinate people against COVID-19. The Union government's counsel, Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, said some state governments and municipal bodies had decided to ignore its advisory guidelines and were conducting door-to-door vaccination for special categories of citizens, but it was not possible yet to make such drives a part of the national policy. ASG Singh was responding to a previous query posed by a bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni on what the Centre thought about the BMC's request seeking its permission to conduct door-to-door vaccination for the elderly, bedridden, or such category of citizens.