Ready to procure and distribute any eligible vaccine, says TN Medical Minister
The Hindu
The global tender received no bids the Minister said; Pasteur Institute of India can manufacture one crore vials of COVID-19 vaccine a month if provided with raw materials, he said
The State government is ready to procure and distribute any eligible vaccine for the public, but called for procuring vaccines, Ma. Subramanian, Minister for Medical and Family Welfare said. Mr. Subramanian, along with Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan and other officials, assessed the COVID-19 situation in the district and reviewed the facilities. Mr. Subramanian inaugurated the paediatric ward with intensive care facilities for COVID-19 treatment set up at Namakkal Government Medical College Hospital including a special unit for treating newborn babies for COVID-19.![](/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.