CHENNAI: In a worrying trend, the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has suspended its vaccination drive for June 28 following shortage of vaccines. The notification reflects in GCC website on June 27 noting that there would not be any vaccination on June 28 and that the drive would resume once the vaccine arrives. However, the medical and family welfare department, however, said that the vaccine shortage is temporary and the government has taken necessary steps for replenishment and that the drive would commence immediately.
The Chennai Corporation has been carrying out vaccination through 45 vaccination centres and 19 urban community health centres. The GCC has been conducting special vaccine drives in markets and other crowded public places as part of its outreach programme.
As per reports, there is a shortage of vaccines since Sunday and that there is a fall in vaccination across the state as the number of doses administered has come down from 3,72,618 on June 26 to a paltry 89,402 vaccine doses on June 27, Sunday.
Tamil Nadu had faced an acute shortage of vaccines at the start of June but later the stocks arrived in large quantities and the situation improved. The GCC itself had administered 39,366 vaccines on June 25 which was the second-highest in Tamil Nadu in a single day since the vaccination drive began.
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