Only Covaxin jabs for children
Bengaluru: 01.01.2022
Ahead of administering Covid-19 vaccine to children (15-18 age group) and ‘precautionary’ doses to healthcare/frontline workers and senior citizens with comorbidities in January 2022, the health and family welfare department said only 0. 5ml of Covaxin will be given to the teenagers.
In a circular issued on Thursday, the department said children born in 2007 and before will be vaccinated from January 3 and the second dose will be provided 28 days after the first.
District health authorities have been instructed to ensure vaccination centres have separate schedules for kids and the rest of the population. Parental consent must be taken prior to administering vaccine to children with comorbidities. In case the child is given any other vaccine recently, the Covid-19 vaccination must be done only af- ter 15 days, read the circular issued by Arundhathi Chandrasekhar, mission director, National Health Mission, Karnataka.
The health department has asked districts to identify schools with three rooms spacious enough for establishing vaccination centres. Drinking water and hand-wash facilities must be set up. The list of schools where Covid-19 vaccination for children is administered must be made public, the circular stated.
Schools conducting online classes must schedule dates of vaccination and provide children with jabs. Any adverse event following vaccination must be efficiently managed, the note said.
Precautionary doses will be made available for healthcare and frontline workers and senior citizens with comorbidities from January10. “They must have completed 39 weeks or nine months from the time of second dose,” the circular stated.
Healthcare/frontline workers aged above 60 who had taken their previous doses under the general citizen category can provide their employment proof and get registered for the precautionary dose. Key decisions to be taken soon, says Bommai Amid a spike in Covid-19 and Omicron variant cases in the state, chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said the government will take some “important decisions” in the days to come. He said health infrastructure such as beds, oxygen and medicines should be put in place to deal with the situation. “Cases are increasing across the country; the Centre has identified Karnataka as one among the eight states,” Bommai said.
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