Jab for 15-18 age group to start today

Manav Mander

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 2

Vaccination against Covid for adolescents in the age group 15-18 will start in the district tomorrow. Session site for this age group will be set up at all Urban Community Health Centres, all four Subdivisional Hospitals and Civil Hospital.

According to the Health Department, there are 2.5 lakh children in this age bracket. Not only parents but also the educational institutes have heaved a sigh of relief with this announcement.

Giving information, Civil Surgeon, Dr SP Singh said in the beginning vaccination of those falling in the age group 15-18 will be done at five-six centres and in addition to this it will also be done at all Subdivisional Hospitals.

“Covaxin has been provided at these sites. Keeping in view the strike by the healthcare workers we have sought help from the CMCH and DMCH and they will be providing us teams for the same. Sites will be common but teams administering vaccine to teenagers will be different,” said the Civil Surgeon.

Children born in 2007 and earlier shall be eligible to receive the vaccine. Registration can be done on CoWin. A slot can also be booked by children by using their parents’ existing CoWin accounts.

“Now that schools have opened, the decision of the government to administer vaccine to kids is a welcome step. I will definitely get both my kids vaccinated,” said Jaspinder, a parent.

A schoolteacher suggested that the Health Department should also set up camps at schools so that maximum number of beneficiaries are covered in a single day.

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