Covid-19 booster dose gap reduced to 6 months for all adults


New Delhi, Jul 6 (IANS): The Centre on Wednesday reduced the gap for administration of Covid vaccine booster doses from existing 9 months or 39 weeks to 6 months or 26 weeks.

The Union Health Ministry said that as per the recommendation, it has been decided all beneficiaries from 18-59 years will be administered the booster after completion of 6 months or 26 weeks from the date of administration of 2nd dose.

"In view of the evolving scientific evidence and global practices, the Standing Technical Sub Committee (STSCI) of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) has recommended to revise the duration between 2nd dose and precaution dose from existing 9 months or 39 weeks to 6 months or 26 weeks," it said, adding that the NTAGI has endorsed it.

"Therefore it has now been decided that the precaution dose for all beneficiaries from 18-59 years will be administered after completion of 6 months or 26 weeks from the date of administration of 2nd dose at Private Covid Vaccination Centres (CVCs)," the ministry said in a letter to the states.

It also said that for beneficiaries aged above 60 years and above as well as the Health Care Workers (HCWs) and Front Line Workers (FLWs), the precaution dose would be administered after completion of 6 months or 26 weeks from the date of administration of 2nd dose at Government CVCs free of charge.

"Instructions in this regard may be issued to all the concerned officials and it may also be publicised widely. I look forward to your support and leadership for extending the benefits of precaution dose to all due beneficiaries at Covid Vaccination Centres (CVCs) as well as at household level during the ongoing Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 Campaign," Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in the letter.

 

  

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  • Daniel, Mangalore

    Wed, Jul 06 2022

    Never-ending series of annual shots and boosters ? Following couple of excerpts of Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., a former vice-president and chief scientific adviser for the drug company Pfizer recent interview article on Global Stories today, titled Former Pfizer Exec Believes Leaky Vaccine Was Intentional... "So if I told you that the spike protein, like a floating landmine in … the sea with the spikes sticking out, I told you that we’ve known for more than a decade that the spike bits from related viruses had unwanted biology that could cause blood to coagulate and activate platelets and make blood clots. That’s true." ... By choosing the spike protein on which to base COVID-19 shots, scientists picked a protein that was known to be toxic to humans and that was not the part of the virus that prompted the best immune response. On top of that, spike protein mutates rapidly, which essentially destroys virtually any protection that the shot provides shortly after it’s given. The end result is a seemingly never-ending series of annual shots and boosters."

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Wed, Jul 06 2022

    Further how many boosters would we have take??

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  • Monty Dotor, Mangalore

    Wed, Jul 06 2022

    Until all the doses lying unused are exhausted....

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  • Cynthia, Dk

    Wed, Jul 06 2022

    Rudy sir, people are very smarter than these people...enough they frightened since two years..... My friend is saying no one is wearing masks at Bangalore inspire of govt's new guidelines..... It's common people fall sick due to change of weather....and asking for corona test... here under "endemic".... It's common if one infected student goes to school/college. Parents should keep their infected wards at home and not to send them to school/colleges....And hence infection could be controlled in a large scale....

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  • Santan Mascarenhas, Kinnigoli/Toronto

    Wed, Jul 06 2022

    Rudolf, here in Canada, my relatives have taken 2 booster doses and they are told that is the end of it. While I was in Bangalore, I was continuously getting reminders from govt agency to take the booster dose. I have not taken booster dose upto now. I think, for the time being, two booster doses are what our govt is planning. Here, we have some Indian origin Catholic people whom I know, have not taken even the first original dose and forget about booster, for religious reasons. Born again may be, but why some Catholics here are against the dose, God only knows.

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