Chennai: Some vaccination centers in Chennai and several other parts of Tamil Nadu were closed on Monday because there was no stock of vaccines, said Minister of Health MA Subramanian.
Of the 1.44 doses of lakh vaccines received, the state has used a dose of 1.41 lakh, said Minister after the inauguration of a special vaccine camp at Madras High Courct.
“It is an irony that people in Tamil Nadu, including members of the tribal population, are ready to take vaccines.
But we cannot give them vaccines because we do not have stock,” he said.
At 8 am on Monday, the country has a stock of 2.07 lakh doses.
“This will end now,” he said.
Two doses of lakh covishield are expected to reach Tamil Nadu at 17:30 on Monday.
Between January and February, the country vaccinated 10,650 people every day.
This rose to around 83,000 in March.
In the next two months, between 94,000 and 99,000 people take vaccines every day.
The average amount of vaccination rose to 1.9 lakh a day.
On a few days, the state was vaccinated up to 4.3 lakh people.
In June, the dose of Lakh 52.17 lakh.
The country was given nearly 48 doses of lakh in June.
“The amount of vaccination is higher than the dose received because we use some of the remaining doses of stock and nurses using 12 doses from bottles not only 10,” said a senior official from the country’s immunization wing.
Each vaccine bottle contains five or ten doses, but the manufacturer always packs an additional 1 mL into the bottle.
“Our nurses have learned to use it too.
With this, our waste also goes down,” he said.
Triplicane in Chennai has 90,000 people who were vaccinated because of the efforts of Udhayanidhi Stalin MLA, he said.
“This is the maximum in Chennai,” he said.