India holds Covid-19 vaccination drive for 15 to 18-year-olds. See photos
Published on Jan 03, 2022 12:05 PM IST
Covid-19 immunisation: Thousands of children, many accompanied by parents, queued up outside schools, medical centres and special health camps from early on Monday to secure their first dose of a vaccine.
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Amid concerns of the Omicron surge, India began vaccinating the 15 to 18-year-old age group from Monday, that is, January 3, 2021.
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The move, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last December, is meant to quickly expand the country's inoculation effort to cover the world's largest adolescent population.
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The UN children's agency UNICEF estimates India has the largest population of adolescents in the world with about 253 million of them.
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Private and public schools doubled up as vaccination centres for children, while school authorities were ordered to report their daily vaccination data to state authorities.
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Thousands of children, many accompanied by parents, queued up outside schools, medical centres and special health camps from early on Monday to secure their first dose of a vaccine.
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The government is only giving children Bharat Biotech's Covaxin vaccine as that is the only vaccine with emergency use listing for the 15-18 age group, the health ministry said last week.
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