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The covid-19 vaccination of children in the 15-18 age group began on Monday as centres across the country started administering the shots to the younger population. (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)
The vaccination starts amid the recent global surge of infections, due to the new Omicron variant. (Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
The Union Health Ministry had announced that Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin will be the only vaccine that will be administered to eligible recipients — in two doses 28 days apart. (Express Photo by Abhinav Saha)
According to official estimates, there are 10 crore children in the 15-18 age group eligible for the vaccination. (Express)
Beneficiaries can register online through Co-WIN app. Children can book a slot using their parents’ existing Co-WIN accounts. (Express Photo by Partha Paul)
The health ministry’s guidelines said children could be registered onsite by the verifier/vaccinator in facilitated registration mode; appointments can also be booked online or onsite (walk-in). (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)
The CoWIN platform had till Sunday evening recorded over six lakh registrations in the age group of 15-18. (Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has advised states and Union Territories to provide separate vaccination centres, session sites, queue and different vaccination teams for this age group to avoid the mixing-up of vaccines. (Twitter: Mansukh Mandaviya )
Mandaviya has also appealed to parents to register their eligible children. “If the children are safe, then the future of the country is safe.” (Express Photo)
The Drugs Controller General of India granted emergency use authorisation to indigenously-developed Bharat Biotech's Covaxin for children above 12 years with certain conditions on December 24. (Express)
Children under observation after they took their covid-19 shots at a school in Kolkata. (Express photo by Partha Paul)
Children wait in line for their covid-19 vaccination at Kameshwar school, Ahmedabad (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)
Students vaccination drive at Town school Kolkata. (Express photo by Partha Paul)
Puducherry Cheif Minister N Rangasamy launches covid-19 vaccination for children aged 15-18 from Thillaiyadi Valliammai Government High School in Kataragama. (ANI)
An teen waits to receive vaccination for Covid-19 at a government school in New Delhi.
