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Corona vaccine for the age group 12-14: Over 3 lakhs administered on the 1st day (16th March)!
Posted on: 17/Mar/2022 12:44:18 PM
Corona Vaccination for the age group of 15-18 commenced on 3rd January this year.
As per the latest information from the Central Government Ministry of Health, over 3 lakh of children in the age group 12-14 were administered with corona vaccine. This effort takes the total persons administered in the country to over 190.80 Crores.
The corona vaccination for the age group 12-14 commenced yesterday (Wednesday, 16th March) with Biological E`s intramuscular vaccine Corbevax, two doses of which are to be administered 28 days apart.
There were 4.7 crores children aged 12 and 13 years in the country As of March 1, 2021,
Further, more than 2.15 crores precaution doses of the Covid vaccine have been administered to healthcare and frontline workers, and those aged above 60 years.
All people aged 60 and above have been made eligible for the precaution dose to the Covid vaccine.
The prioritization and sequencing of the dose would be based on the completion of nine months to 39 weeks from the date of administration of the second dose.
With the healthcare workers getting inoculated in the first phase, the countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16, 2021, Vaccination of the frontline workers started on February 2 last year.
The subsequent phase of Covid vaccination commenced on March 1 last year for people over 60 years of age and those aged 45 and above with specified co-morbid conditions.
Progress in different phases:
- India launched vaccination for all people aged more than 45 years from April 1 last year.
- The government then decided to expand its vaccination drive by allowing everyone above 18 years of age to be inoculated against the viral disease from May 1 last year.
- The next phase of Covid vaccination commenced from January 3 this year for adolescents in the age group of 15-18 years.
- India began administering precaution doses of the vaccines to the healthcare and frontline workers and those aged 60 and above with comorbidities from January 10 this year.
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