salem health minister ma subramaniam on sunday said his department was ready to face the third wave of covid19 if that were to outbreak the minister inspected a few vaccination centres in erode salem namakkal dharmapuri and salem districts on the day he told the media here that his department had fixed a target of inoculating 15 lakh people from 20000 camps in the state on the day we have vaccinated 1274 lakh people till 415pmpointing out that uttar pradesh where the population is thrice that of tamil nadu had inoculated 29 lakh people in a day the minister said we have vaccinated 2891 lakh people in the past week the state leads the country in the vaccination drivethe minister said salem district had inoculated 2798 lakh people so far he said seven districts including salem chennai coimbatore madurai and trichy had vaccinated more than one lakh people in the mega drive last sunday our plan is to inoculate at least one lakh people in the upcoming drivesthe minister said during the aiadmk governments regime 63 lakh people were inoculated from january 16 to may 6 we have vaccinated 61000 people per day since may 6 the union government has assured to allot 104 crore vaccine doses to the state this month and we could inoculate the entire eligible population as early as possible