chennai with covid cases coming down tamil nadu has been slowly lifting lockdown restriction but people must continue to follow pandemic restrictions to keep the incidence low health minister ma subramanian saidit is the duty of the government to create awareness and encourage people to wear mask and maintain social distance he said launching a fourday awareness campaign for covid appropriate behaviour the programme is jointly organised by the directorate of public health greater chennai corporation press information bureau and the uniceften mini vans with posters and loudspeakers will move around crowded residential areas and marketplaces in the city for the next four days till july 5 volunteers will distribute pamphlets to reinforce the message urging people to wear masks frequently wash their hands with soap use sanitizer and maintain physical distancing and also avoid crowded places to control the surge of cases they will also motivate them to get vaccinated he saidthe state has so far received 156crore doses of the vaccine and has used 148crore doses we had more the eight lakh doses and we are hoping to empty these out in a couple of days he said