Chennai: DMK president M K Stalin has said everyone should work with caution to prevent another lockdown like last year.

‘During the first wave of Covid, there was a total lockdown. But people and business have not come out of the blow rendered by that lockdown yet,’ he said in a statement.

Stalin added: ‘Let us work with the confidence that there will not be total lockdown after 2 May (after election results are declared).’

He said the Centre and the state government should act on a war footing and address the shortage of oxygen, vaccines and medicines in the fight against Covid-19.

While the Union government had announced that everyone aged over 18 would be eligible for vaccination against Covid-19 from 1 May, he said in reality there was a shortage of vaccines.

‘There are many reports of people who went to get their first dose of vaccination being turned away and even those whose second dose is due being told that there is a shortage of vaccines,’ he said.