THIRUVANANTHAUPRAM: Senior CPM leader and former chief minister V S Achuthanandan has received the second jab of Covid vaccine from General Hospital in the capital city. VS, who took the first shot on March 6, reached the hospital for the second shot. He son Arun Kumar accompanied him.

He said the second wave of the epidemic is gaining strength and that care and discipline are essential and we could survive this stage by strictly adhering to Covid norms, he wrote in the Facebook after receiving the vaccine.