The Southern state Tamil Nadu has been reportedly allocated 5 lakh additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines this month as part of their prevailing vaccination programme.

The Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian statement in this matter reads as follows: “For July, the State was allotted 72 lakh doses of COVID vaccines. Out of these, 17 lakh doses were for private hospitals. We have been getting continuous supply. As the State has been performing well, the Union government has given the nod for supplying five lakh more doses of vaccines this month,”

The Health Minister added that the total number of vaccines administered was nearing two crore in the State. As of Tuesday, 1,96,43,859 people had been vaccinated, including 1,83,56,631 at government vaccination centres and 12,87,228 at private hospitals. “As of this morning, we have 6,27,470 doses in hand, and we will be getting 5,42,780 doses during the day. There will be no shortage of vaccines for the next three days,” he said.

The Health Minister went on to say: “For July, private hospitals in the State were allotted 17 lakh doses. Of these, only four lakh doses had been administered so far. We are taking measures to expedite the process to administer the remaining 13 lakh doses to the people.”

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