Covid booster dose for all adults at private vaccination centres from April 10
New Delhi, April 8: The Central Government has announced that booster dose of Covid-19 vaccines will be made available to all adults in the 18 population at private vaccination centres from April 10 (Sunday).
The Health Ministry clarified that the booster dose would have to be a homologous dose. So if someone has completed the schedule with two doses of Covaxin, they will take Covaxin as a booster and the same for Covishield and other shots.
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All those who are above 18 years and have completed nine months after the administration of the second dose would be eligible for the precaution dose against Covid 19. The facility would be available in all private vaccination centres.
So far, about 96 per cent of all 15 population in the country have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose while about 83 per cent of 15 population has received both the doses.
More than 2.4 crore precaution doses have also been administered to healthcare workers, frontline workers and 60 population group; 45 per cent of 12 to 14-year-olds have received the first dose.
More than 2.4 crore precaution doses have also been administered to healthcare workers, frontline workers and 60 population group; 45 per cent of 12 to 14-year-olds have received the first dose.
Meanwhile, India reported 1,109 fresh Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours with a case positivity rate of 0.24 per cent, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday. With this, the active caseload in the country stands at 11,492, which is 0.03 per cent of the total cases.
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As many as 1,213 Covid patients recovered from the disease during this period taking the total number of recoveries since the beginning of the pandemic to 4,25,00,002. The recovery rate is 98.76 per cent.
-PTC News