New Delhi: COVID-19 vaccination for the 15-18 age group began on Monday morning across the country. Cowin registration for the age group had already begun on Saturday. Around 52,68,136 of children in the 15-18 age group have registered so far on Cowin platform to get vaccinated.
As per Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, the national capital has the capacity to vaccinate 3 lakh children falling in the age group of 15 to 18 years every day.
COVID vaccination centers in Delhi have been set up in government hospitals, dispensaries, polyclinics and schools run by the Delhi government and municipal corporations.
COVID-19 vaccination for 15-18 age group:
Over 40 lakh children between 15-18 age group received their first dose of #COVID19 vaccine on the 1st day of vaccination drive for children, till 8 PM: Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya
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— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2022
Rajasthan | Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla launches vaccination drive for children in the category of 15 to 18 years of age at Vigyan Nagar Medical Dispensary in Kota; long queues witnessed outside of the vaccination centre pic.twitter.com/hWlcfFFXZn
— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2022
LG Manoj Sinha launches COVID vaccination for children between the age of 15 & 18 years from Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Jammu
“5 districts have achieved 100% vaccination (2 dose) for people above 18. I hope everyone will be vaccinated in the coming week,” he says pic.twitter.com/6z3Ew4BLvm
— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2022
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited one of the centres in Lucknow to lunch the vaccination drive and said, “There are 1.4 crore children in the age group of 15-18 in the state. 2,150 booths have been set up across the state to vaccinate the children.”
यूपी: 15-18 साल के बच्चों का टीकाकरण शुरू होने पर सीएम योगी आदित्यनाथ ने एक लड़की को वैक्सीन लगने के बाद सर्टिफिकेट सौंपा… pic.twitter.com/5ZlILcBHTh
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Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan launches vaccination program for children between 15 to 18 years of age
“All our effort is to ensure that schools & markets remain open & state economy keeps running, while COVID19 is defeated. For that, we have to vaccinate,” he says pic.twitter.com/NFIjqupWJ7
— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2022
Puducherry CM N Rangasamy launches COVID vaccination for children aged 15-18 from Thillaiyadi Valliammai Government High School in Kataragama pic.twitter.com/TMt1ry5cAv
— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2022
Vaccination program for children b/w 15-18yrs of age inaugurated in Bihar from Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science,Patna. Genome sequencing started in the state from today. We’ll have a meeting tomorrow to decide necessary actions to prevent COVID surge: CM Nitish Kumar pic.twitter.com/0xtxwz2hLS
— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2022
Jammu & Kashmir | #COVID19 vaccination for children in the age group of 15-18 years starts in Jammu. Visuals from a private school in the city pic.twitter.com/SZUv20DIQU
— ANI (@ANI) January 3, 2022
“We’ve made a micro plan as per which we’ll vaccinate 600 students above 15 years of age with COVAXIN,” says Dr Rajnikanth Contractor, Medical Officer-In-Charge of Chandlodiya Urban Health Center, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
The vaccination drive is also witnessing active participation in Jammu and Kashmir as students are visiting their schools turned into vaccination centres since morning.
PM Modi on December 25, 2021, had announced that the vaccination for the age-group 15-18 years is scheduled to begin from Monday while administration of precautionary third dose for the vulnerable categories is to commence from January 10, 2022.
In the context of the vaccination of the age group 15-18 years, the Union Health Secretary informed the States and UTs that only ‘Covaxin’ is to be administered in this population category and additional doses of ‘Covaxin’ will be sent to all states and UTs.
Those with the birth year of 2007 or before will be eligible for vaccination under this category.
