Express News Service
CHENNAI: As active Covid cases have come down to 0.5 per cent in the State, focus is now on expanding vaccination target groups. While the Greater Chennai Corporation on Tuesday said election officials and media persons would be eligible to get the vaccine, public health experts say that it is high time the target groups are expanded to senior citizens and vulnerable population. Ever since the State allowed frontline workers receive the jab, the beneficiary numbers rose by more than 50 per cent.
From a daily 6,866 beneficiaries on February 1, the numbers rose to 21,645 on February 15. Public health experts say that it is important to immediately include senior citizens and vulnerable populations to the beneficiary list as the State still continues to record deaths in single digits with mostly senior citizens succumbing to the virus.
Mediapersons, public representatives likely to get vaccine by end of month in Tamil Nadu
Officials said many photojournalists are at a high risk and the vaccination for mediapersons is being started early in the State.
Share Via Email
| A+A A-
Black cats of the National Security Guard (NSG) wait for their turn to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in Chengalpet on Saturday. (Photo | EPS) By Express News Service
CHENNAI: Public representatives, including mediapersons, in Tamil Nadu will be eligible for Covid-19 vaccination by the end of February, according to officials of the health department. Sources said the vaccination drive (for mediapersons and public representatives) would begin between next week and the end of the month.
Express News Service
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government is mulling giving the COVID-19 vaccine to elderly people in the second phase, along with frontline workers, from February 1.
Addressing reporters here at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Health Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan said that the state has communicated to the Centre in this regard, asking whether they could vaccinate willing elderly people along with frontline workers.
“We have given this opinion to the Centre and will take a decision based on their reply,” he said. He also said experts were of the opinion that the vaccine could be given to the elderly along with frontline workers, instead of making them wait for the third phase.
Read more about Tamil Nadu s turnout for Covid-19 vaccine stays low for second day on Business Standard. As many as 12,684 healthcare workers were vaccinated Saturday, compared to facilities created for 16,000 people
COVID-19 vaccination dry run begins in TN, each centre can immunise 100 people a day
Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital is one of the three dry-run sites in Chennai while the other districts which are part of this are Nilgris, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore and Tiruvallur.
Share Via Email
| A+A A- By Express News Service
CHENNAI: Each vaccine centre for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu would have the capacity to immunise 100 people a day, Health Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan said on Saturday.
He was addressing reporters here at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital after kick-starting the dry run for vaccination which is being simultaneously held at 17 centres across the state from Saturday.