Yogesh K Porwar & Avanth Kumar Kankariya
Precautionary dose of COVID-19 vaccine to be available for 18+ category from April 10
Private vaccination centres to start administering COVID-19 vaccine to 18+ category from Sunday
Precautionary dose for COVID-19 vaccine will be available to everybody who belong to the 18+ age group at private vaccination centres to from April 10, 2022.
Precautionary dose of the vaccine can be taken by those who have completed 9 months or 39 weeks after the second dose of vaccination.
Currently, first,second and precautionary dose of COVID-19 vaccine is already being given to Healthcare Workers,Frontline Workers,and 60+ population at the government vaccination centres. This will be accelerated further.
As per current statistics,Karnataka has administered a total of 10.47 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine and the precautionary dose accounts for over 14 lakh.
Among the total population eligible for the Precautionary dose around 57.6% have been vaccinated.
For the first dose among the 18+ age group, Karnataka has administered over 4.97 crore doses of vaccine and has successfully completed administering the second dose of the vaccine to 4.76 crore people (97.4%)
Additionally, the state has also administered 13,27,985 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to children aged between 12-14 years as a part of the first dose and the second dose for this age group will be started shortly.
Among 15-17 age group, Karnataka has successfully administered 5,23,05,424 (100.4%) and 4,97,08,909 (95.4%) first and second doses respectively.
