Chennai, September 14 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister, Ma Subramanian has said that even after the resounding success of the mega vaccination against Covid -19 held on Sunday, the state is still vulnerable to Covid -19. He said that there is still a large number of eligible population in the state who needs to be […]

Chennai, September 11 (IANS) The food safety department officials of Tamil Nadu conducted raids across the state on eateries specifically non-vegetarian restaurants and hotels and wayside eateries on Friday and Saturday.  Sources in the department told IANS that the raids were conducted after a ten-year-old girl in Arni, Tiruvannamalai district died of food poisoning after […]

Chennai, September 9 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (Tanuvas) will open the admission process for undergraduate programmes from Thursday, September 9 for the academic year 2021-22. The courses that offered are BVSc , BTech (food technology), BTech (diary technology), and BTech (poultry technology). The process will begin at 10 am on […]

Chennai, September 9(IANS) Tamil Nadu Director of Medical Education( DME), Dr. R. THNarayana Babu has directed the deans of all Medical colleges to conduct 100% vaccination in the hospitals attached to the colleges. In a meeting convened with the Deans of Medical Colleges on Thursday, the DME said that the Medical Colleges must be prepared […]

Chennai, September 8 (BPNS) The Mega Covid -19 vaccination camp to be conducted at 10,000 centres across Tamil Nadu and to benefit 10% of the eligible population of the state. The state health department in a statement on Tuesday said that the camps which are modelled on the lines of Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation( IPPI) […]

Chennai, August 29(BPNS) Tamil Nadu will complete the vaccination of the staff including teaching and non-teaching staff of schools and colleges by September 5. A statement from the office of the state health minister said that at least one dose of vaccine would be administered to the staff of schools and colleges by September 5. […]

Chennai, August 27 (BPNS) The Directorate of Medical Education (DME), Tamil Nadu has directed the deans of some government medical colleges in the state to collect the bond amount of Rs 50 lakh from specialty doctors who have skipped government postings. The DME of Tamil Nadu, Dr. Narayana Prasad has written letters to the deans […]

Chennai, August 27 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister, Ma Subramanian has said that 90.1% of the teachers and 89.32% of the non-teaching staff of Tamil Nadu have been vaccinated with at least the first dose of vaccine against  Covid -19. He was speaking at a functioning organized by the Greater Chennai Corporation on Friday for vaccinating […]

Chennai, August 17 (BPNS) While Tamil Nadu has an infrastructure and trained nurses strength of 50,000 people, the daily vaccines against Covid -19 in the state is at 2.4 lakh while the state can inoculate between 8 to 10 lakh people a day. Health department officials said that the reduced count of inoculation is due […]

Chennai, August 11(BPNS) Tamil Nadu health Minister, Ma Subramanian has said that there was no spread of Delta plus variant of Covid -19 virus in state. The state health minister on Wednesday while interacting with media persons at Karur said that some samples were tested for Delta variant but there was no presence of the […]