
Tiruppur district plans to vaccinate 5,000 a day
The Hindu
With the overall COVID-19 cases crossing the 20,000-mark in Tiruppur district on Wednesday, the Health Department plans to vaccinate at least 5,000 beneficiaries every day. According to Deputy Directo
With the overall COVID-19 cases crossing the 20,000-mark in Tiruppur district on Wednesday, the Health Department plans to vaccinate at least 5,000 beneficiaries every day. According to Deputy Director of Health Services (Tiruppur) K. Jegadeesh Kumar, nearly 2,500 beneficiaries are being vaccinated a day in the district and this will be doubled likely by next week in view of the raising COVID-19 cases. “We have sufficient doses of the vaccines,” he said. Over 73,000 beneficiaries have received the vaccine shots as of Tuesday in the district, as per the data available with the Health Department. As many as 24 government-run vaccination centres, including government hospitals and primary health centres and several private vaccination centres are administering the vaccine shots in Tiruppur district, Dr. Kumar said.More Related News