Vaccination is the best way to avert third wave of COVID-19: L-G

Tamilisai proposes incentives for those getting vaccinated

Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has suggested offering incentives to people taking COVID-19 vaccine as expanding the inoculation net was the best way to prevent a third wave of the pandemic. Chairing the weekly review meeting in the U.T. on Thursday, Dr. Soundarajan said: “Incentivising people for vaccination through gift schemes could be an option in as much as the wrath of third wave, if and when it occurs, can only be thwarted by large-scale vaccination. Imperative, therefore, to put vaccination programme on fasttrack.” The spread of SARS CoV-2 has drastically declined in Puducherry. However, there can be no let-up in the monitoring until the decline curve plateaus at the bottom. “Focus must be on the two components of infection and vaccination. Infection can only be brought to control by increasing vaccination,” she said.