Over 10 lakh persons eligible for precaution dose
The Hindu
Over 10 lakh persons — healthcare and frontline workers and senior citizens having co-morbidities — who received their second dose of COVID-19 vaccination during February to May 2021 are eligible to g
Over 10 lakh persons — healthcare and frontline workers and senior citizens having co-morbidities — who received their second dose of COVID-19 vaccination during February to May 2021 are eligible to get the “precaution” dose before January 31, 2022, depending on the completion of 39 weeks (273 days) after the second dose of vaccination.
The Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine pointed out that the Government of India had instructed to start the precaution dose for healthcare and frontline workers and those aged above 60 years with co-morbidities on January 10.
Persons who have completed nine months (39 weeks) from the date of the second dose administration were eligible to receive the precaution dose from January 10. There was no need for any medical certificate, T.S. Selvavinayagam, Director of Public Health, said in a circular to all deputy director of health services and city medical officer officer of Greater Chennai Corporation.
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