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100 Tamil Nadu healthcare workers Nadu to get vaccinated on Day-1

More than 480,000 healthcare providers including doctors have registered through the Co-WIN software to get the jab

Medic workers conduct a dry run for the COVID-19 vaccination on a beneficiary, at a government hospital in Kolkata on Friday.
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T E Narasimhan Chennai
On Day-1 of nationwide rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, 100 healthcare workers across 166 sites in Tamil Nadu will get innoculated. The state government will roll out vaccines for Covid-19 tomorrow.

Dr Vinay Kumar, Joint Director, Directorate of Public Health Care and Preventive Medicine, Chennai said that more than 480,000 healthcare providers including doctors have registered through the Co-WIN software to get the vaccination.

He said the final number of volunteers registering for the vaccination would be known on January 25 the time frame for registration for the frontline workers.

The State of Tamil Nadu is fully equipped for the vaccine rollout and has

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