India : India will start vaccinating children between the ages of 15 to 18 from January 3 next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a sudden address to the nation tonight. Healthcare and frontline workers will be provided with “precautionary doses” from January 10 next year, he added.
People above 60 years of age who have co-morbidities will also have the option to take the booster dose on a recommendation from doctors. This will also start from January 10.
As Omicron cases rise in the country, and around the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that vaccination for children aged 15 years and up will begin from January 3rd, 2022.
Precaution’ doses for frontline workers, as well as co-morbid patients aged 60 years and up, will be given from January 10.
The prime minister used the term precaution dose and did not call it booster dose as it has been generally referred to.
