Chandigarh: 64,275 in the inner 60-year-old category with co-morbidity and frontline and health workers will begin to get their Covid booster from Monday.
The population targeted at 60+ with co-morbidities is 15,600, while 26,237 health care workers and 22,438 frontline workers.
“60+ people with co-morbidity must consult their doctor before coming to the preventive dose.
But there is no need for written medical advice from the doctor to get a dose.
Verbal statement from 60 years plus and the people above about consultation with the doctor will be taken At the value of his face, “said Yashpal Garg, UT Health Secretary.
There must be a nine month gap, 39 weeks from the date of the second dose.
Because the vaccine for the dose will be the same as the first and second dose, the covishield will be used in Chandigarh.
Residents over 60 years with co-morbidity may get a dose in one of the vaccination centers for 18 years and above.
“They will be given preferences in all such centers there for the first or second dose.
Health workers and frontline workers can get a dose at the Special Counter / Center in PGI, GMCH, Sector 32, GMSH, Sector 16 and in Civil Hospital ( Sector 22, 45 and in Manimajra).
Police personnel may get a dose at the police hospital in Sector26 too, while Chandigarh MC staff in organized camps at the MC office in Sector-17.