65% of those over 45 given first dose of vaccine in city
The Hindu
Civic body focuses on vaccinating market workers
Even as the State is facing a vaccine shortage, the Greater Chennai Corporation has been channelling its resources to vaccinate those who come into contact with a large number of people on a daily basis. It has started vaccinating workers and traders in the wholesale markets so that those who were exposed to these places do not contract the SARS CoV-2 virus. The civic body, having started the vaccination programme with limited doses in Koyambedu market a few days ago, has begun inoculating the vendors in the Chintadripet and Kasimedu fish markets. A senior official said the vaccine was in short supply and whenever they received vaccine doses they had been administering them to the priority categories such as those aged above 45 and also those working in markets.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.