Chennai, July 14(BPNS) The Greater Chennai corporation will fine apartment sites, residential sites, small shops and premises and malls, and other buildings if found to have stagnant water in their premises that breed mosquito larva. With intermittent rains on a daily or alternate basis, the puddle of water is turning into breeding grounds of mosquitos […]

Chennai, July 15(BPNS) The Animal Husbandry departments of Tamil Nadu and Kerala have commenced vaccinating the livestock near the Anaikati border after a cow elephant was found dead due to Anthrax in the Anaikati forest area. The Tamil Nadu veterinary department and the animal husbandry department are vaccinating livestock including cow, goat, buffalo, and ox […]

Chennai, July 13(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting the latter for a special allocation of 1 crore vaccine doses to the state. In a letter forwarded to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister requested Narendra Modi to correct the imbalances […]

Chennai, July 13(BPNS) Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian inaugurated the pneumococcal vaccine for children under the age of five years on Tuesday at a Public health centre at Poonamalle. In his inaugural address, the minister said that bringing in Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine( PCV) under a universal immunization program will reduce the death rate in […]

Chennai, July 9(BPNS) Sikkampattu village in Ulundurpet block and Devi Agaram in Tirkovilur block became the first two villages in Tamil Nadu to achieve a hundred percent coverage of their eligible population with the first dose of the vaccine. A statement from the State Public health department on Friday said. Both these villages are in […]

Chennai, July 7(BPNS) While the villagers of Tamil Nadu were initially hesitant and not allowing to get themselves vaccinated, the situation has changed over the days with most of the villagers getting the first dose of the vaccine and Nilgiris becoming the first district to inoculate all eligible people. Some villages in Tamil Nadu is […]

Chennai, July 5(BPNS) The Public Health experts of the state have warned the government of an imminent return of the Covid pandemic if the Standard protocols are not maintained during the relaxations provided. Heavy rush was witnessed in several public places of Chennai, including Marina beach, and streets that serve food and other necessities, markets, […]

Chennai, July 4(BPNS) Even as the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu created history by vaccinating almost all the eligible populace of the district including all the tribes being vaccinated, in certain tribal pockets of Coimbatore, the tribes refused to vaccinate with men even climbing trees and women running to the river to fetch water to […]

Chennai, July 2(BPNS) Tamil Nadu state Public health department has planned a massive outreach programme involving volunteers, NGO’s and other social organisations to conduct a massive door to door campaign over Covid awareness and the necessity to wear masks, safe distancing, use of sanitisers, and vaccination. The  department has formulated the new plan following reports […]

Chennai, July 1(BPNS) The vaccination drive which was on stagnant in Tamil Nadu for the past two days due to the shortage of vaccines will resume on Thursday after the state received 2.5 lakh doses on vaccines by Wednesday evening. Vaccine shots have been despatched to all districts by late evening. In the month of […]