{"id":331300,"date":"2021-03-23T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331300"},"modified":"2021-03-23T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:32:09","slug":"anyone-aged-above-45-eligible-for-covid-19-vaccine-from-april-1-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/anyone-aged-above-45-eligible-for-covid-19-vaccine-from-april-1-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone aged above 45 eligible for Covid-19 Vaccine from April 1: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331301\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/prakash-javadekar-1590734602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/prakash-javadekar-1590734602.jpg 715w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/prakash-javadekar-1590734602-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/prakash-javadekar-1590734602-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/>The Government today announced that all people above 45 years of age are entitled to get COVID-19 vaccine, From April 1.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made during a cabinet briefing by Union Minster Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe requested that all eligible should immediately register and get vaccinated \u201che said.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed people entitled to get them registered to take the COVID-19 shot.<\/p>\n<p>He also said even people without comorbidity and above the age of 45 years, can get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16 with healthcare workers getting immunized and vaccination of the frontline workers started from February 2.<\/p>\n<p>The next phase of COVID-19 vaccination commenced on March 1 for those who are over 60 years of age and for people aged 45 and above with specified co-morbid conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government today announced that all people above 45 years of age are entitled to get COVID-19 vaccine, From April 1. The announcement was made during a cabinet briefing by Union Minster Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday. \u201cWe requested that all eligible should immediately register and get vaccinated \u201che said. He appealed people entitled to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36],"tags":[12470,13646,485,13995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331302,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331300\/revisions\/331302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}