Chennai: Tamilnadu did not receive any fresh stock of Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday when 12,609 people were given jabs in government centres and 2.8 lakh took the jab in private centres, up from Tuesday’s 2.6 lakh.
Vaccination centres in most districts were closed as they did not have adequate stock. Officials said they did not when they will receive the next stock.
The state awaits the next consignment of Covaxin today. The state is also awaiting the delivery of 3,65,800 doses of Covishield vaccine on Friday.
Health Minister Ma Subramanian said, “It is true that we do not have vaccine stocks. The Union government should give 36.5 lakh doses of vaccines for this month and they have said that they will distribute 6.5 lakh vaccines between 9 and 13 June.”
He added: “The vaccines will be distributed to the state based on a schedule and once we receive the schedule and vaccines, we will distribute them to the districts. The people in Tamil Nadu are aware about the pros of vaccines and are ready to get inoculated. So as we get vaccines, we will start camps and inoculate people.”