NE NEWS SERVICE
PUDUKOTTAI, OCT 22
Hours after the BJP’s poll promise of free Covid vaccine to all, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, who was in Pudukottai to review the prevention of Covid-19 measures, announced that the vaccine will be provided free of cost to all.
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The Chief Minister said “Once COVID-19 vaccine is ready, it will be provided to all people of the state free of cost,” announced the Chief Minister, where the election is due for next year.
“As soon as the COVID-19 vaccine is available for mass production, every person in Bihar will get free vaccination. This is the first promise of our election manifesto,” Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. The BJP that has been facing a lot of flak for making free vaccine a poll promise, but the party defended its move stating that health was a subject under the state government.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu reported just over 3,000 new coronavirus cases for a second straight day, taking the total number of people infected till now to 6.97 lakh on Wednesday.
Results of a sero survey showed that nearly one third of the population in Chennai has been exposed to the pathogen. The results of the second serosurvey conducted in the city recently to detect the transmission of coronavirus showed an overall positivity rate of 32.3%, authorities said.
The first phase of the survey, with a sample size of around 12,000, had revealed (on September 1) that a fifth of the population (21.5%) in the metropolis had been exposed to the pathogen. Third phase of vaccine trial is under progress in India.
