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One month has passed since the day the government started a vaccination drive for teenage children between 15 to 17 years. The teenagers are being provided Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN which is the only vaccine with Emergency Use Listing (EUL) for the 15-17 years age-group and recommended by ‘Covid-19 Working Group’ of the National Technical Advisory Group on immunization.
Till date many children across the country have got vaccinated and the drive is on.
The ongoing inoculation drive has led to the Centre asking the State and UT governments to take a call on the reopening of schools, which have been closed for the past 2-years due to pandemic.
According to the media reports children below 15-years of age are also likely to be vaccinated soon so that they could return to schools and normalcy returns.
The Union Health Ministry has underlined the need to expedite the vaccination drive among children and has stressed on the officials to ensure that mass awareness is created to overcome the hesitancy shown by the people.
Parents who hesitate are taking “an enormous risk and continuing to fuel the pandemic. The government must persuade more and more children to take the jab.
There is also a need to prioritize administering booster doses in vulnerable populations, besides, expediting vaccination among eligible sub-adults. Omicron has a growth advantage over the delta variant and as such requires ardent mitigation and containment measures.
The Omicron has proven to be less dangerous than the delta variant responsible for the second wave but the people need to raise their guard and remain cautious and vigilant to the infection since it has a high rate of transmission and can infect a larger group of people over shorter periods. It remains the social and moral responsibility of every citizen to be responsible for themselves and those around them.
People have to exercise due diligence against any symptom of infection in the interest of their family members as well as that of society at large.
The vaccines have proved highly safe and effective at reducing the risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death, global data has shown. The administration must get its act together and take steps so that most of the eligible take the jab. The vaccination holds the key. |
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