New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi announced on Saturday that “precaution doses” (boosters) for health and frontline workers as well as those above 60 with co-morbidities will begin from January 10. He also said Covid vaccination for children aged 15-18, using Covaxin, will begin from January 3.
The PM made the announcement in an ‘Address to the Nation’ at 9.45pm on Saturday soon after the drug regulator granted emergency use authorisation to Bharat Biotech’s locally developed Covaxin for children above 12 years of age. Covaxin is the second vaccine, after Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D, to get the regulatory nod for restricted use among children in the 12-18 age bracket. The vaccination programme, however, will currently cover children above 15 only.
Modi also said approvals for a nasal vaccine and the world’s first DNA vaccine are on the anvil.
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