10,000 Camps, 20 Lakh Doses: Tamil Nadu's Ambitious Sunday Vaccine Drive

Coronavirus Vaccine: Nearly 10,000 camps will be set up for the inoculation drive as the state aims to vaccinate 20 lakh people on a single day.

Tamil Nadu is planning to hold an ambitious Covid vaccination drive across the state on September 12, state Health Minister Ma Subramanian announced today. Nearly 10,000 camps will be set up for the inoculation drive as the state aims to vaccinate 20 lakh people on a single day. "We are making arrangements to organise these camps on September 12. A meeting to discuss the required arrangements will be held with district Collectors, joint directors and deputy directors of health services," Mr Subramanian said. Although the daily vaccine coverage in the state crossed six lakh last week, the state faces the challenge of vaccine hesitancy as even though the inoculation rate increased from January to July, it has remained steady in the month of August. Another challenge that the state aims to tackle through the massive vaccination drive is- increase in the number of infections in the neighboring state of Kerala. Through this campaign, the state aims to achieve 100 per cent vaccination in nine districts along the Tamil Nadu- Kerala border. Kerala has been consistently reporting an increase in infections with the state logging 19,688 new COVID-19 cases and 135 related deaths yesterday which took the active caseload in the state to 2,38,782 cases while the death count mounted to 21,631.