MK Stalin seeks vaccines in 9:1 ratio for govt

A day after Chennai corporation had to shut in its vaccination centres citing shortage of doses, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin wrote to the Union Health Minister on Monday, asking for an increased vaccine allocation to the State's government institutions.

The CM has urged the Centre to evaluate the vaccine doses allotted to various States so far and revise the inter-state allocation between government and private institutions to 90:10 as against the current allocation of 75:25. He said the availability of vaccines has emerged as the principal constraint in the last few weeks and added that the allotment to Tamil Nadu so far has been one of the lowest among the States in the country in terms of doses per thousand population.