{"id":335205,"date":"2022-01-10T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=335205"},"modified":"2022-01-10T00:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:17:19","slug":"covid-19-booster-doses-from-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-booster-doses-from-today\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Covid-19 booster doses from today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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India began precautionary doses of Covid-19 to those above the age of 60 with comorbidities, frontline workers as well as healthcare workers on Monday, as fast-spreading Omicron variant numbers spike in the country.<\/p>\n

In this ongoing vaccination drive around 5. 75 crore people are eligible for the third dose in which 2.75 crore are above the age of 60, 1 crore healthcare workers, and 2 crore frontline workers.<\/p>\n

Precautionary third doses of the vaccines were announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month. Also the government had launched a vaccination programme for beneficiaries in the age group of 15 to 17.<\/p>\n

On Monday India reported 1,79,723 new cases and 146 deaths. Most of them are in the country\u2019s biggest cities Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.<\/p>\n

However, with the administration of more than 29 lakh Doses (29,60,975) vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India\u2019s Covid-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 151.94 crore (1,51,94,05,951) as per provisional reports till 7 am today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India began precautionary doses of Covid-19 to those above the age of 60 with comorbidities, frontline workers as well as healthcare workers on Monday, as fast-spreading Omicron variant numbers spike in the country. In this ongoing vaccination drive around 5. 75 crore people are eligible for the third dose in which 2.75 crore are above […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":335207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14755,36],"tags":[14986,12750,14985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335205"}],"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=335205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335209,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335205\/revisions\/335209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/335207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}