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Vaccination picks up pace again as Tamil Nadu receives over 600K doses
The state received Covaxin and Covishield vaccine doses on Tuesday and they have been dispersed to all districts, officials said and added the orders for them were placed in May
Tamil Nadu received 616,660 Covaxin and Covishield vaccine doses on Tuesday and they have been dispersed to all districts, officials said and added the orders for them were placed in May.
“Yesterday (Monday) we had a closing stock of about 72,000 doses. Now we have another 616,660... From tomorrow (Wednesday), this stock will be exhausted in another two days,” said Vinay Kumar, joint director (immunisation), directorate of public health and preventive medicine. “We are expecting additional supply on Wednesday and Thursday.”
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On June 11, the state received 306,000 doses of Covishield after only 1,060 doses were left in Chennai and stocks ran out in the rest of the state. Later in the day, Tamil Nadu received 85,000 Covishield doses, which were distributed immediately to districts. Only 2,327 people were vaccinated in Tamil Nadu that day. On the following day, 360,000 doses of Covishield arrived for the 18-45 age category.
On June 1, the state exhausted its doses, and it announced the suspension of vaccination between June 2 and 5 and prompted the Centre to send about 500,000 doses that day and the vaccination continued.
The vaccination drive is picking up pace once again. As many as 258,701 people were inoculated on Monday.
