chennai tamil nadu vaccinated 55 lakh people on wednesday and with the centre increasing the states allocation for september tn will soon push daily vaccinations to at least 6 lakh however health minister ma subramaniam clarified on wednesday that the state cannot be among the top performers in the country anytime soonthis is mainly because between january and april when vaccines were available tamil nadu did not vaccinate an adequate number of people the aiadmk government which was in power did not create adequate awareness and the average vaccinations a day was around 61000 taking the tally to just 63 lakh during the same period several states like gujarat and rajasthan made better use of the vaccine he said after visiting loyola college on reopening day after we came to power we have vaccinated more than 26 crore people in 116 daysin the same time other states continued to vaccinate people in large numbers at least 70 of people in gujarat and 65 in rajasthan have received at least one dose of the vaccine compared to less than 40 in tamil nadu tns neighbours like kerala 80 karnataka 66 and andhra pradesh 56 have also covered a larger population data showed that just 10 of tns 6 crore adults have completed both doses the minister said for september the centre promised more than 14 crore doses of the vaccine at government centres more than 3 crore people have been vaccinated we have pushed up vaccinations at private hospitals by offering free vaccinations using csr funds subramaniam said we will increase daily vaccinations to at least 6 lakh in the coming days and we have the capacity to vaccinate up to 8 lakh people every daydata from the immunisation wing of the state health department showed that vaccine utilization is above 90 in all districts and goes up to 104 in some districts while seven districts reported 100 vaccine utilization nine others are at more than 100 for instance cheyyar and sivakasi report utilization of 104 by using additional doses in the vialskodaikanal hits 100 1st dose coverageall eligible residents of kodaikanal town have taken their first dose of the covid vaccine dindigul collector s visakan said in palani municipality too we have administered vaccines to more than 98 of the eligible population and will achieve 100 vaccination in upcoming weeks he added