The vaccination of children started in India from 3 January. In the first phase, children between the ages of 15 and 18 are being vaccinated. Now the vaccination of 12 to 14 year old children has also started.
Children of 12 to 14 years across the country have started getting the corona vaccine from today. Apart from this, all the people of 60+ age are also getting precaution doses from today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that today is an important day in India’s efforts to vaccinate its citizens. Now youth in the age group of 12-14 are eligible for the vaccine and all those above 60 are eligible for the precautionary dose. I urge people in these age groups to get vaccinated.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged youth in the age group of 12-14 and all those above 60 to get vaccinated. He said that today is an important day in India’s efforts to vaccinate its citizens.
PM Modi tweeted that we have sent vaccines to many countries under the Vaccine Friendship Program. I am glad that India’s vaccination efforts have made the global fight against Corona stronger. He said that today there are many ‘Made in India’ vaccines in India. We have also approved other vaccines after a due process of evaluation. We are in a better position to fight this deadly pandemic. Also, we have to follow all the precautions related to Corona.
Earlier, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had tweeted that taking forward the Corona vaccination campaign, the Kovid vaccination of children in the age group of 12-14 has started from today under the Vaccine to Everyone, Free Vaccine campaign. He wrote that all people of 60+ age will also be able to get precaution dose from today.
Today is an important day in India’s efforts to vaccinate our citizens. Now onwards, youngsters in the 12-14 age group are eligible for vaccines and all those above 60 are eligible for precaution doses. I urge people in these age groups to get vaccinated.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 16, 2022
On the other hand, in Gujarat, more than 22 lakh children of 12 to 14 years of age have been started vaccination regarding corona vaccination. Children are being given a dose of Covaccine, the second dose is to be taken after 28 days.
This campaign has been started inside the schools of Gujarat, so that children can get the vaccine in the school itself. In this entire process, children will be vaccinated by going to more than 2500 different schools.
Corona situation in India
In the last 24 hours, 2,876 new cases of corona have been reported in the country. On Tuesday, 3 thousand 884 patients of Corona recovered and returned home. At the same time, 98 patients of Corona also died in the last 24 hours. At present, there are 32 thousand 811 (0.08%) active cases of corona in the country. Daily positivity rate is 0.38%.
