Chennai: Tamilnadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian has said a total of 92,522 people have been administered the precautionary dose. This included 32,355 health workers, 25,330 frontline workers and 34,867 people aged above 60 years with co-morbidities.
Subramanian said special precautionary dose camps will be held every Thursday in 600 centres across the State. This would take place apart from the 50,000 Covid-19 special camps the State has planned to conduct on Saturday.
Subramanian launched a facility to administer precautionary booster dose at the doorstep of those people aged above 60 and having co-morbidities.
The government launched the initiative to administer precautionary booster dose to healthcare and front-line workers, people above the age of 60 on 10 January.
After a two-day fall in the number of new infections, Tamilnadu reported an increase to 23,888 fresh cases on Tuesday when 21 districts across the state reported an increase in their 24-hour tally. The deaths also increased to 29 taking the cumulative death toll to 37,038.
The positivity rate in Chennai stood at 28.7 per cent. Chengalpattu (26.1 per cent) and Tiruvallur (22.2), too, recorded a surge in the positivity rate.
Chennai accounted for the majority of the new infections with 8,305 followed by Coimbatore 2,228 and Chengalpet 2,143 while the rest were spread across other districts.