Boost testing, vaccinate those aged 18-45: FICCI urges govt.
The Hindu
‘Younger age group acting as super spreaders of infection’
Industry body FICCI has urged the government to ramp up COVID-19 testing across States and open up vaccination for the age group 18-45 years, while assuring it of the complete support of the industry in fighting the pandemic. “We are currently testing about 11 lakh samples a day, while we had reached the level of testing 15 lakh samples a day in January,” FICCI president Uday Shankar said in a letter to the Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan. “Further, there is capacity of performing much more tests with 2,440 labs in the country operational for COVID-19 testing, including more than 1,200 from the private sector,” he wrote.
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