Coimbatore: The vaccine crisis continues for sixth consecutive day on Friday in the district with the Ministry of Health and City Corporation announced no public camps.
City Corporation, however, announced a plan to hold camps in five schools on Friday 65 years and above with a total of 1,000 doses of vaccines.
Camps will be held at – Ramchetti School, Ammani Ammal School, High School in Ganapathy, Siddhapudur Corporation School and Selvapuram Corporation School.
The remaining dead storage is only used to vaccinate pregnant women and nursing mothers at Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital.
“We haven’t got information from Chennai when we will get a mass dose to restart public vaccination,” a senior official said.
However, those who were able to pay the vaccine chose to get Jab in a private hospital.
“Personally, the process is much easier.
There is no waiting time, no crowd and we immediately received our certificate without error,” Sanjay S, a resident of the racing course that got a covishield photo in a private hospital at Avinashi Road, said.
However, private hospitals like Ganges.
Hospital, PSG Hospital and KMC also run out of vaccines on Friday.
“We will receive our next stock covishield around July 20,” Ganga Hospital spokesman said.
KMC spokesman issued the same statement.
KMC actually has orders placed for covishield, covaxin and sputnik.
The availability of Russian sputnik in the city has provided assistance to the population.
It is available in several private hospitals and health care service centers.
While the GKNM hospital has given it for the past 10 days, Ag’s Healthcare has also launched a vaccine in the city.
However, people go for sputnik must register in the Cowin application and order their slot on the website.
But finding slots is almost impossible, say people who have tried.
“Slots open at 6pm usually but close to 6.05 a night,” said a GKNM officer.
They vaccinate 80 to 90 people with sputnik a day.
Meanwhile, this district recorded 349 fresh Covid-19 cases on Friday.
With this, the active case has increased to 4,121 and Case Tally became 2.24,376.
As a 346 people were dismissed from the hospital and Covid care center in the district that day.
The number of people recovered from infection has increased to 2,18,158.
The state media bulletin has put the deaths of five people that day.
With this, the toll has increased to 2,097 in the district.