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Chennai Corpn plans to give 1 lakh covid jabs on Thursday

Chennai: One Lakh City resident will be vaccinated on Thursday at nearly 400 locations including all UPHC, Amma Clinicing and corporate buildings.
Greater Chennai Corporation has been looking for vaccines from the State Public Health Department for Massive Drives and will deploy complete health staff to execute.
45 permanent vaccination centers in corporate schools will be closed in several days and civil bodies plan to regulate at least one center in each of 200 divisions.
“The urban health center and Amma Clinic will be identified and vaccination centers are set there.
We have reduced the number of centers like that mainly due to lack of vaccine supply.
There are three centers per zone, before.
With increased vaccine supplies, and schools and colleges Opening, we want to increase the number of vaccination centers, “said Vishu Mahajan, deputy commissioner, income and finance, who is responsible for drive vaccination.
So far, the Civic’s body was vaccinated 36.8 people lakh, 25.7 lakh after receiving a dose and 11 lakh both doses.
The corporation held a drive focused on 38 enhanced market locations to 27 weeks ago.
Even camps are held in malls and shopping complexes and starting special drives where every day at least 45 slums are identified and citizens are vaccinated.
“Once a school and open college, we plan to do a special drive there.
We will choose three schools and colleges in each zone every day and vaccinate them.
This will be done in a rotation to cover all staff and students who are expected to return from The place of their origin, “Mahajan said.
On the first day special drives to vaccinate those with 80 years at their door, 500 people were given Jab.
This, around 463 got their first dose and 37 got the second dose.
“We have got 160 more calls for the next day.
We will continue this drive until we vaccinate all senior citizens above 80,” said an official.
The numbers to take advantage of the door vaccination for senior citizens is – 044-2538 4520 / 044-4612 2300.
In this category, from 1.65 lakh each eligible, 90,153 has been vaccinated so far.

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