Chennai, Aug 23: In a bid to achieve maximum coverage, the Tamil Nadu government today launched 24 hour COVID vaccination drive in all the government and district hospitals across the State. It was launched by Health Minister Ma Subramanian in the city in the presence of officials and it will be available in more than 50 hospitals across the State. In all 11 government medical college hospitals in the State will have round-the-clock COVID-19 vaccination centres from Monday. The vaccination centres started functioning in all government medical college hospitals, and district government hospitals in districts that did not have government medical colleges. In Chennai, round-the-clock vaccination is being administered at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Government Medical College Hospital at Omandurar Estate, Government Royapettah Hospital, Government Stanley Medical College Hospital and Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital. “Through this, the pace of vaccination will be faster and people can get vaccinated easily in Chennai,” the Minister said. The 24-hr vaccination drive will be beneficial to employed people and those travelling within or outside the state. The Minister said 100 per cent vaccination had been achieved in over 60 villages throughout the State, including in the tourist destination of Kodaikanal.
