COVID-19 vaccine | High-risk category individuals eager to get third booster dose
The Hindu
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Creating a bypass, several healthcare workers and those in the high-risk category are getting their third vaccination amidst a steady rise in the number of in the country.
While Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in the Lok Sabha earlier this week that the Central Government was in no hurry to give the green signal for the booster dose and that it would wait for proper scientific analyses, private hospitals have confirmed that they are flooded with requests for booster dose. Several individuals also confirmed that they were getting the “additional vaccine protection.”
“With this new strain Omicron spreading rapidly, there have been a lot of queries related to third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine,” said Dr. Ankita Baidya, consultant-Infectious Disease, HCMCT Manipal Hospital, Dwarka, Delhi.
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