COVID booster shot News
You must have heard about the booster dose against COVID-19, but now preparations are also being made to apply a booster dose of BCG vaccine in India.
Delhiites will get free booster dose. CM Kejriwal announced. Vaccination will also be done in Mohalla clinics. CM Kejriwal said, the situation of covid-19 in Delhi is under control. While appealing, Kejriwal said, everyone in Delhi must get the vaccine.
The Union Health Ministry last week reduced the gap between the second and precaution dose of Covid-19 vaccine for all beneficiaries from nine to six months
To encourage booster shots, the government initiated the second round of the 'Har Ghar Dastak campaign 2.0' across states and UTs on June 1
Vaccination for all people aged more than 45 years began on April 1 last year
The subvariant BA.2 is one of at least three sub-lineages of Omicron. The virus is found in about 2 percent of local samples and has started to gain a serious foothold in England, India and Denmark.
After the announcement of the Prime Minister for children, elderly and health workers, preparations have started across the country. The date of vaccination has been fixed for children of 15 to 18 years. Prime Minister Modi has also talked about booster dose for health workers and elderly people.
Contradicting the vaccine maker's pronouncement, a new study has found that a third dose of Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine does not provide sufficient protection against the Omicron variant.
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Booster shots, currently authorised in France for anyone over 65 or with underlying health conditions, will be expanded to those 50 and over in December, Macron said. "Each of us must play our part" to avoid a deadly "fifth wave" of the pandemic, Macron said in a televised speech.
Households are the site of most SARS-CoV-2 transmission globally
It is also vital to take COVID-19 booster shots for best protection against infection
Homologous boosters increased neutralising antibody titers 4.2- to 20-fold
Heterologous boosters increased titers 6.2- to 76-fold
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