Vaccination to resume as TN receives 2.5L doses

The vaccination drive which had to be temporarily paused in Tamil Nadu for two days due to shortage of vaccine doses will resume on Thursday after the M.K. Stalin government received 2.5 lakh doses late last evening.

In June, the state was allocated 42 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines and the Centre allocated an additional 5 lakh doses. The 2.5 lakh doses which were sanctioned add up to this taking the total allocation for Tamil Nadu to 49.5 lakh doses.

On Wednesday, the state witnessed flash protests as people turned violent after several vaccine centres displayed “No Vaccine” boards.

In Madurai people had queued up since 3 a.m. for the Covid jabs in front of the Elango Corporation Boys High School. They shouted slogans after health department officials announced that there was no vaccine available.

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