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COIMBATORE: Private hospitals in the district will be able to collect Covid-19 vaccine vials from the storage unit here on Sunday and begin administration on Monday.
This comes after health minister Dr C Vijayabaskar announced on Friday that private hospitals with more than 150 health workers could administer the vaccine vials on their premises itself.
Around 5pm on Saturday, the public health and medical services department got a written communication, asking it start handing over Covishield vials to the private hospitals with more than 150 health workers.
Dr G Ramesh Kumar, deputy director of public health, said, “We have around 15 to 20 hospitals in that category in the district. We will be able to hand over the vaccines on Sunday afternoon based on the number of health workers they have registered.”
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COIMBATORE: As many as 93 dengue cases have been reported from the district in the last 28 days.
Six dengue patients, including two children, were admitted to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, dean in-charge Dr P Kalidas said.
Most cases are reported from the corporation limit, from densely populated parts including Peelamedu, Singanallur, Nanjundapuram, Rathinapuri and Ganapathy. “We are seeing isolated cases from the east zone and north zone, but no clusters yet,” city health officer Dr A Raja said. “Whenever we see a case, we immediately check for fever cases in the neighbourhood, take up peridomestic anti-breeding activities like cleaning of stagnant drains and using bleaching powder,” he said.