New Delhi: Tamil Nadu’s health department has announced that four lakh people are eligible for a dose of booster vaccine on Monday.
The state health department in a statement on Sunday also said that 10.7 lakh people in the state can avail the booster dose in January. The beneficiaries include 2.7 lakh frontline workers, 2.7 lakh health workers and five lakh people above 60 years of age.
Tamil Nadu on Monday launched a ‘precautionary diet’ for frontline workers and senior citizens with co-morbidities.
Tamil Nadu has 91 lakh doses of the vaccine and as per the data and guidelines provided by the Government of India, 9.1 lakh beneficiaries will be provided Kovashield, while 1.5 lakh will be given Covaccine, the statement said.
The state public health department called upon people to visit the CoWIN portal and check their eligibility for a booster dose and then contact the centers from where they received the first two doses of the COVID vaccine. According to him, the booster dose is also available at all the health centers under government or any private hospital.
All frontline workers, health workers, and people over 60 and vaccinated before April 14 are eligible for a booster dose of the vaccine.
Meanwhile, state health secretary J Radhakrishnan said the government was ready to deal with the rising number of cases in the state. “We are one of the leading states in immunization of children in the country. As of now, the cases are rising, but the number of hospitalizations are low. We are adding 50,000 beds to the existing 1.5 lakh hospital beds in the state,” Radhakrishnan told ANI news agency.
Telangana begins ‘precautionary diet’
Telangana also started giving precautionary doses to senior citizens with co-morbidities on Monday. Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao was present at the Government Unani Hospital in Hyderabad when nurses administered a precautionary dose of COVID to the beneficiaries.
,IANS. with inputs,
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