The vaccine will be administered to schoolchildren first, and then in health institutes and anganwadi centres and among communities. Furthermore, as part of the Universal Immunisation Programme, certain districts have been identified as endemic to JE. Children born here are given the first JE vaccine dose when they are nine months old and the second dose at 1.5 years of age.
The state health department and KMC have started sensitizing parents before the government launches its measlesrubella vaccination programme for those aged between 9 months and 15 years across Bengal from January 9.
Israel in late July announced a vaccination programme for risky population, with the shipment of 5,600 doses produced by Danish firm Bavarian Nordic. The shipment of another 4,400 doses is expected to arrive in September.
Vietnam started its vaccination programme for children aged five to 11 on Thursday, the state media agency announced.
Mandaviya had earlier informed that over 70 per cent of adolescents in the given age group have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine since the vaccination programme was expanded to the given age group.
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said a total of 1,20,82,792 people in the said age group are yet to receive the first dose of a Covid vaccine.
India’s pharmaceutical sector expects an impetus from the Union budget 2022 which will further improve its production capacity and innovation to maintain its stance as the pharmaceutical hub of the world.
At a press briefing on Friday, the UN health agency said it was now recommending booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, beginning in the highest-priority groups, about four to six months after receiving the first two doses, in line with guidance from dozens of countries that embarked upon booster programs months ago.
Singapore is among the first few countries to recommend boosters for that age group, following Germany the United States, Israel and Hungary.
The decision for the administration of precautionary doses and vaccination for children was taken as states across the country witness a rapid surge in COVID-19 cases. The new variant Omicron has found its way to 17 states with over 400 cases in the country.
Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices Ltd (HMD), has been asked to shut down its factories ‘voluntarily’ as part of a pollution-control drive undertaken by authorities in the National Capital Region (NCR).
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