Mini clinics added to vaccination sites in Tamil Nadu
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With COVID-19 vaccines being prolonged to all above the age of 45 beginning on Thursday, the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine has given the nod to begin vaccination in mini clinics established throughout the State.
T.S. Selvavinayagam, Director of Public Health (DPH), mentioned mini clinics had been being added to the vaccination programme. “There are 1,950 mini clinics in the State. There may be challenges in a few remote places, but approval has been given to all,” he mentioned.
He added that the vaccines could be moved from the district and regional vaccine shops to the mini clinics. “We have stock for a week. We have 8 lakh doses of Covishield and Covaxin, and the next batch is expected soon,” he mentioned.
In a round issued to all Deputy Directors of Health Services, the DPH mentioned there have been 529 authorities COVID-19 vaccination centres and 761 personal vaccination centres.
Based on the advice of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19, the Centre determined to broaden the prioritised age group to embrace all individuals aged 45 years and above for COVID-19 vaccination from April 1.
The want for a co-morbidity certificates for individuals aged 45 to 59 years was not required from now. The Co-WIN software program was additionally being suitably modified to get rid of the necessity for the situation of co-morbidities on the time of on-line registration and on-site registration or for importing the co-morbidity certificates on the time of vaccination. The registration on Co-WIN for this alteration would start on April 1, the round mentioned.
All DDHS had been instructed to give particular give attention to optimum utilisation of the capability of COVID-19 vaccine centres whereas minimising the wastage of vaccines, he mentioned in the round.
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