How Tamil Nadu Is Vaccinating Its Young Population

Tamil Nadu is expanding vaccine coverage, especially among the young population, through inoculation drives on college campuses.

Tamil Nadu is ramping up its inoculation programme with a different approach: vaccination centres in colleges. With institutions reopening after months, Tamil Nadu faces the enormous challenge of vaccinating its young population. Although, the state's daily Covid-19 tally has been on the decline with 1,562 cases and 20 related deaths reported yesterday, vaccine hesitancy had initially slowed down the state's inoculation programme. Now, the state government is expanding vaccine coverage, especially among the young population, through inoculation drives on college campuses. At Chennai's 70-year-old New College, Mohamed Suhail, a final year B Com student who got his first vaccine dose during the college campus drive said that the state government's decision of making vaccination mandatory for attending classes in college, helped in shedding his fears with respect to the jab. "I had a problem, and my parents were scared. Now I've no other way and I feel confident," Mohamed told NDTV.