65% Covid Patients Young, Remove Age Bar For Vaccines: Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said 65 per cent of all COVID-19 cases are under the age of 35-40, "so we need these restrictions on eligibility lifted for Delhi"

Delhi Chief Minister Avind Kejriwal today reiterated his call to allow Covid vaccination for younger people, citing that they are more vulnerable in the countrywide second wave. In Delhi, 65 per cent of all COVID-19 cases are under the age of 35-40, "so we need these restrictions on eligibility lifted for Delhi," Mr Kejriwal said. "I personally feel that this age-restriction on vaccines needs to be done away with," the Chief Minister said while speaking to NDTV today. "We need to break the chain, and the chain can only be broken when maximum people get vaccinated... and for that we need to lift these restrictions," he said. Not just Delhi, data from other states, including Maharashtra, indicates that Covid, in its second wave, is mostly targeting younger people, unlike the first time when the elderly people were considered most at risk. Part of the reason is the formation of new strains with "double mutations", which have been found in patients from 10 states, sources in the Union Health Ministry have told NDTV.