24-hour vaccination brings more footfall; State targets 5L per day

After the recent launch of 24-hour vaccination drive at 55 centres in the State, the number of vaccinations has increased and 4.88 lakh persons were vaccinated on Monday alone, said Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Tuesday.

Close to 2.68 crore people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the State so far and the 24-hour vaccination drive has helped increase the footfall of beneficiaries. The Health Minister said the State hopes for the daily vaccination to cross five lakh. “There are eight lakh vaccine doses in stock. Five lakh more are expected to come from the Center on Tuesday,” he added. Inaugurating the setting up of an oxygen production plant at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) on Tuesday, the Health Minister said it has conducted the highest number of RTPCR tests (15,87,454) among all government hospitals.

At least 1,001 mucormycosis patients have recovered at the special ward at RGGGH, Ma Subramanian said on Tuesday.

He said around 4,200 people were affected by mucormycosis in Tamil Nadu and 1,714 received treatment at RGGGH. The post-COVID-care unit

at the hospital has been treating the patients who developed complications and now the number of people coming with such issues has also declined. Most of the people with coronary heart disease were treated at the post-COVID--care units at the hospitals,” he said.

He added that the Chief Minister has instructed to ensure that the treatment for non-COVID patients should not be affected.