‘Got 5.16 lakh vaccine doses for 18-44 age group’
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2.05 lakh Remdesivir vials allotted: T.N.
The State authorities on Monday informed the Madras High Court that it had acquired 5.16 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines for inoculating folks within the 18-44 age group.
Stating that it had paid 100% advance quantity to 2 home vaccine producers for procuring 13.85 lakh doses allotted by the Centre within the first section, the federal government mentioned it was but to obtain the remainder of the 8.68 lakh doses.
Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy have been additionally knowledgeable by Advocate-General R. Shunmugasundaram that the State had acquired 76.99 lakh vaccine doses for immunising these aged 45 and above, and that it had utilised 64.13 lakh doses to date. The submissions have been made in the course of the listening to of a suo motu public curiosity litigation petition taken as much as monitor efforts to combat the pandemic.
On the supply of Remdesivir, the A-G mentioned the Centre had allotted 2.05 lakh vials of the drug to Tamil Nadu, as in opposition to pending orders for 3.5 lakh vials positioned by the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation. Nevertheless, the TNMSC was drawing from its reserves and supplying them to sufferers in non-public hospitals too, establishing gross sales counters in Chennai, Salem, Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchi and Tirunelveli.
The courtroom was additional informed that there have been 43,858 oxygen-supported beds within the State, and the federal government had already began creating 12,500 extra beds, of which 5,592 had been put to make use of and the stability have been anticipated to prepare by May 15.
“In addition, the setting up of another 10,000 oxygen beds is also simultaneously being taken up,” the A-G informed the primary Division Bench.
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