Vaccination camps held in three wards
The Hindu
‘Fever camps held regularly to identify symptomatic persons’
Finance Minister P. T. R. P. Thiagarajan inaugurated COVID-19 vaccination camps at Wards 8, 83 and 87 here on Monday. He said that the State government was taking steps on a war-footing to vaccinate all the eligible public. Earlier, people were not coming forward to get themselves inoculated. But after the State government created awareness of the importance of vaccination, more people were coming forward to get themselves vaccinated.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.