India
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, Dec 26: In a surprise announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said covis vaccination for the children in the age group of 15-18 years from January 3. He also announced ‘precaution dose’ for covid warriors amid highly infectious, fast-spreading Omicron variant scare.
Who will be given precaution dose?
The third covid vaccine in India is called called ‘precaution dose’ not booster dose. As per Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement, healthcare and frontline workers will get precaution dose from 10th January 2022, Monday. This has been done in the light of the amount of time that the frontline workers and health care workers spend in the service of Covid patients.
The decision of precaution dose will strengthen confidence of healthcare and frontline workers.
The Prime Minister also announced that option of precaution dose will be available for senior…