The government of the India authorized this Friday the third dose of the vaccine against covid-19 for its entire adult populationwhich will only be administered in private vaccination centers, a decision that occurs when infections barely exceed 1,000 cases per day in the Asian nation.
“It has been decided that the precautionary dose of the covid vaccine will be available to the population group over 18 years of age in private vaccination centers. The administration would start from April 10, 2022,” the Indian Ministry of Health reported. it’s a statement.
However, only those adults who “have completed 9 months after the administration of the second dose, will be eligible” to receive it at any private vaccination center, the text continued.
Until now, India only allowed health workers, front-line personnel, and the population over 60 years of age to be inoculated with the third dose.
Unlike these three groups, which did not have to pay for the serum, the rest of the adults who do not integrate any of these three categories must pay for the booster vaccine.
With this decision, India puts itself on a par with a large number of countries, which have long since begun to supply the third dose to their populations, including minors.
According to the statement from the Indian Ministry, at least 96% of the population over 15 years of age have received the first dose of the covid-19 vaccine, while 83% have received both injections.
The self-styled “world’s largest vaccination campaign” has also provided the third dose to more than 24 million people.
The Indian government approves this measure the same week that fewer than a thousand cases were registered in the South Asian nation, for the first time in two years.
This decrease in infections, around a thousand daily in recent days, has led several states to begin to withdraw the security measures approved during the start of the pandemic to stop contagion.
The western state of Maharashtra, the hardest hit by the virulence of the pandemic with 147,789 accumulated deaths, withdrew the mandatory use of masks on public roads, while the capital’s New Delhi chose to stop fining those who do not. they use them
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