Vaccine Center at a government dispensary in New Delhi, Saturday, January 01, 2022 (Express photo by Amit Mehra)
COVID: Registration for kids 15-18 will start from tomorrow for their first shot; 10 crore target population
As the active COVID case load across the country crossed 1 lakh on Saturday, registration for immunization for children in the age group of 15 to 18 years marks an important milestone in expanding immunity beyond adults.
Data from the Coin Dashboard showed 3,15,416 registrations for this age group as of 11.30 pm on Saturday.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya appealed to the parents to register their eligible children. He tweeted, ‘If the children are safe then the future of the country is safe.
This began a week after the Prime Minister announced that the COVID-19 vaccination for children would begin on January 3.
Shashank Joshi says covid should be a manageable disease like common cold
Dr Shashank Joshi, a member of Maharashtra COVID Task Force has been conferred with the ‘IMA Special Award’ for the year 2020-2021.
“We are in the third wave right now and we have to come out of it with a responsible behaviour. Our biggest challenge today is that although the cases are mild, most people are asymptomatic. If you look at Mumbai, it has 5,712 cases that are asymptomatic, out of 6,347, and the number of hospitalizations is only 389. So the beds that are occupied are only 9% and there has been only one death. They said.
“So, basically Covid has to become a manageable disease and we have to come out of it better. We should not be overwhelmed by the third wave. This is our biggest goal and for this we need to focus on home care rather than institutional care.”
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