MPs express concern over Omicron, demand booster dose

Ask Govt. when vaccination of children and adolescents can be expected

Congress and Trinamool Congress members in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday raised concerns over the looming threat posed by the Omicron variant of COVID-19, asking the government what it planned to do with regard to the variant, whether booster doses of the vaccines were to be given and when vaccination of children and adolescents could be expected.

Raising the issue during Zero Hour, leader of the Congress legislative party in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary, said that Omicron was a developing threat, and going by the arc of infections in the first and second wave of COVID-19, it could not be taken lightly. “I want to know when the government intends to make vaccines available to children and adolescents,” he said.

Echoing him, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee said it was reported on Tuesday that one person in the U.K. had died due to Omicron infection. “I just want to know the measures taken by the Central Government to protect people from this disease, see to it that people come out of this disease, and that it does not spread at all”.