600 camps all set to administer precautionary doses in Tamil Nadu

A special vaccination camp for the administration of booster doses was inaugurated by Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Thursday. He inspected the vaccination camp at government hospital in Poonamallee, Tiruvallur.

The camp has been organised at more than 600 places across the State for the vaccination of frontline workers and those aged 60 years and above with comorbidities. The booster dose vaccination began in the State on January 10.

The Health Minister said that till now, 1,62,631 booster doses have been admitted, while there are 5,52,754 people eligible for the same. By the end of January, the number of eligible people is likely to cross 10 lakh. It is first time in India that any State has special camps for booster doses administration. "Apart from this, mega vaccination camp will be organised at 50,000 vaccination sites and every week, 15-30 lakh people are vaccinated with the help of mega vaccination camps. So far, 3,32,64,751 people have vaccinated through the mega vaccination drive," he said.

Talking about the vaccination in Tiruvallur district, he said that the coverage is good and 88.6 per cent first dose and 63.4 per cent second doses have been administered. The vaccination of children aged 15-18 years, 75.6 per cent people have received the jab in Tiruvallur.

He added that as anticipated, there is a rise in the cases of Covid in the State after the Pongal holidays. "There were about 3,000 more cases recorded from previous day on Wednesday and 1,500-2,000 more cases are expected to be recorded today than yesterday's count," he added