Gurugram: The city will manage the Covid-19 booster or the dose of ‘precautions’ on those over 60 years with comorbidity, who have completed nine months since the second dose, starting today.
The Ministry of Health will establish 108 sessions on Monday, the first day of drive booster vaccination.
While 68 sessions will provide covishield, 40 will manage Covaxin.
The recipient does not have to re-register on the Cowin portal for the booster dose.
Instead, they can make an appointment online or walk to any session site.
Gurugram has opened 8,000 online slots and 5,000 for Walk-in receivers.
Nearly 800 recipients in the district qualified for Booster Covaxin and 37,200 for covishield in accordance with administration.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has notified all government officials to dedicate the area for vaccination camps in their respective places so that people who work in these offices can take the earliest Jab.
“We are carrying out vaccination drives in all government departments, as well as in our health care centers throughout Gurugram.
In our health care centers, there will be three sessions.
One for the 15-17 age group, the second to 18 and above , where people can get the first and second dose, and the third for people who qualify for a booster dose, “said Dr.
Virender Yadav, the head of the medical officer, Gurugram.
In the availability of a covaxin and covishield booster dose, he said, “We have nearly 18,000 doses of covaxin booster and nearly 45,000 doses of covishield booster, too.
We will get more doses from the state government a day.” On Sunday, 3,371 children on The group of 15-17 and 9,554 in the age group was 18-44 vaccinated.
In the 45-plus category, 1,207 people took shots.
A total of 7,906 the first dose and 6,232 were both managed.