UDHAGAMANDALAM : Tamil Nadu will take steps to again float a global tender for vaccine supply as no companies had bid for it, the period for which ended on June 5, Medical and Family welfare minister M Subramanian said here on Sunday.
He said the state had so far received 1.45 crore covid vaccines and about 39 lakh additional doses are expected to be received by the end of this month.The government, he told reporters, was in discussions with the Centre to reopen its plant at nearby Chengalpet to manufacture vaccines.
He pointed out that global tenders floated by states like Kerala, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh had not received any response. The state government had on May 15 floated a global tender to procure 3.5 crore doses of Covid-19.