Covid-19 Vaccine dose: NTAGI suggests providing booster vaccine in 6 months, Health Ministry may issue order soon

Covid-19 Vaccine booster dose: Amid the increasing cases of covid-19 in the country, the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) has suggested reducing the gap for booster doses to 6 months in a meeting. Apart from this, NTAGI has also emphasized on the increasing cases of monkeypox across the world and the need to be vigilant in the country accordingly.

NTAGI has suggested to reduce the gap between the second dose of the vaccine and the precautionary dose from 9 months to 6 months. The Health Ministry can take a decision on this soon.

In the meeting, it was also considered to use different vaccine doses as boosters. However, no decision was taken due to lack of consensus on this.

Apart from that, vaccination of children below 12 years of age was also discussed in the meeting of NTAGI. NTAGI members said the mortality rate among children in the study is almost non-existent. In such a situation, there is no need to start the vaccine right now.

It is worth noting that everyone over the age of 18 who has received both doses of the vaccine are eligible for a booster dose.