TRICHY: Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) leader G K Vasan has appealed to the state and Union governments to rename the Covishield vaccine as Oxford-AstraZeneca in the certificates so that people returning to other countries for professional purposes will not face hardships in the immigration process.
With the Covid-19 cases coming down, the TMC leader and Raya Sabha MP said that workers, mostly travelling to Kuwait, are keen to resume their work.
Covishield, one of the internationally-recognised vaccines, is called Oxford-AstraZeneca in the Middle East.
The workers were denied entry as the provisional certificates issued after the vaccination mentions the vaccine as Covishield, the MP said.
Vasan has sought the Union and state governments to resolve the issue at the immigration process by maintaining the name of the vaccine as Oxford-AstraZeneca in the certificates.
Use AstraZeneca in certificates: Tamil Maanila Congress
