This story is from September 20, 2021

Ready to face third Covid-19 wave, says health minister

Ready to face third Covid-19 wave, says health minister
Salem: Health minister Ma Subramaniam on Sunday said his department was ready to face the third wave of Covid-19, if that were to outbreak.
The minister inspected a few vaccination centres in Erode, Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri and Salem districts on the day. He told the media here that his department had fixed a target of inoculating 15 lakh people from 20,000 camps in the state on the day.
“We have vaccinated 12.74 lakh people till 4.15pm.”
Pointing out that Uttar Pradesh, where the population is thrice that of Tamil Nadu, had inoculated 29 lakh people in a day, the minister said, “We have vaccinated 28.91 lakh people in the past week. The state leads the country in the vaccination drive.”
The minister said Salem district had inoculated 27.98 lakh people so far. He said seven districts, including Salem, Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy, had vaccinated more than one lakh people in the mega drive last Sunday. “Our plan is to inoculate at least one lakh people in the upcoming drives.”
The minister said during the AIADMK government’s regime 63 lakh people were inoculated from January 16 to May 6. “We have vaccinated 61,000 people per day since May 6. The Union government has assured to allot 1.04 crore vaccine doses to the state this month and we could inoculate the entire eligible population as early as possible.”
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