Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday that vaccination Booster Dose against COVID-19 for citizens above 60 years of age and with comorbidities on the advice of their doctor from January 10 next year as well. PM Modi announced decisions that come amid rising Covid cases linked to the Omicron variant of the virus.
Also PM Modi announced children between 15-18 years will start from January 3, while “precaution dose” for healthcare and frontline workers would be administered from January 10, In an address to the nation, he said the precaution dose will also be available for citizens above 60 years of age and with comorbidities on the advice of their doctor from January 10 next year as well.
The precaution dose denotes a third dose of the vaccine for the fully vaccinated but Modi refrained from using the term “booster dose”, as it is generally referred. Amid Christmas and the coming new year festivities, PM Modi asked people to be alert and take all preventive measures but added that they should avoid panic as he reassured them about the health measures in place to deal with any exigencies. Administration of nasal vaccine and world’s first DNA vaccine against Covid will soon start in India as well, he said.
Highlights of PM Modi Speech:
– The prime minister said global experience shows that following all preventive measures at a personal level is “big weapon” to fight Covid and so is vaccination. This is time to be careful, while engaging in festivities, he said.
– “I would urge all of you not to panic, be careful and alert. Remember to mask up and keep washing hands,” PM Modi said.
– Noting that India started giving the vaccine to its citizens from January 16 this year, PM Modi said due to the people’s collective effort and will, India has crossed the “unprecedented” and very difficult milestone of having administered 141 crore vaccine doses.
– “Today, more than 61 per cent of India’s adult population has received both doses of the vaccine. Similarly, about 90 per cent of the adult population has received single dose of the vaccine,” PM Modi said.
– Underlining that he was sharing key decisions with the people of the country on the occasion of Christmas, Modi said that vaccination for children between the age of 15 years to 18 years, will start in the country on January 3, 2022.
– This will reduce the worries of children going to schools and colleges and their parents, and boost the fight against the pandemic, Modi said, adding that the move is also likely to aid in normalisation of teaching in schools.
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– “We all have experienced that the corona warriors, healthcare and frontline workers made a huge contribution in keeping the country safe in this fight. They still spend a lot of his time in the service of oronavirus patients,” PM Modi said.
– From the point of view of precaution, the government has decided that ‘Booster dose’ of vaccine will be administered to healthcare and frontline workers from January 10, Monday: PM Modi.
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– “Our innovative spirit is also growing. The country today has 18 lakh isolation beds, 5 lakh oxygen supported beds, 1,40,000 ICU beds. If ICU and non-ICU beds are taken together, there are about 90,000 beds for children. Today the country has over 3,000 PSA oxygen plants functioning and four lakh oxygen cylinders have been provided across the country,” PM Modi said.
– “States are being helped to prepare a buffer dose of necessary medicines. They are also being provided with adequate testing kits,” PM Modi said.
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