New Delhi: Children in the age group of fifteen to 18 years will be able to register for anti-Covid-19 vaccination on the Cowin portal from January 1 and the vaccine option for them will be only ‘Covaccine’. Officials said on Monday gave this information.
He said that preparations are on to start anti-Covid-19 vaccination of children from January 3. Cowin’s chief Dr. R.S. Sharma said on Monday, “Children of 15 to 18 years will be able to register on the Cowin portal from January 1. According to the new guidelines issued by the Union Health Ministry on Monday, the vaccine option for them will be only Covaxin.
As per the guidelines, the sequence of giving the third dose of vaccine to health workers, frontline workers, and citizens over 60 years of age suffering from certain serious diseases like heart disease, is nine months or 39 weeks from the date of the second dose. will be based.
As per the guidelines that will come into effect from January 3, people aged 15 years and above will be able to register on the Cowin portal. In other words, “all those who are born in the year 2007 or earlier” will be eligible for vaccination.
