Mumbai: In Maharashtra, the anti-Covid-19 vaccination of 15 to 18-year-old children started from Monday. During this, after vaccination, flowers, pens and masks were presented to teenagers in Pune. The Mumbai Municipal Corporation also launched a free vaccination campaign for children. In Mumbai, a ‘Jumbo COVID-19’ center at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) introduced vaccination for this age group with the first dose of vaccine given to a girl student. Maharashtra Tourism and Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray, city mayor Kishori Pednekar and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal witnessed the moment through ‘digital’ medium. A large number of children reached the BKC center to get the vaccines done.
According to official data, Mumbai has registered a significant increase in the daily cases of COVID-19 for the last 15-20 days. On Sunday, 8,063 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Mumbai, which is significantly more than the 1,763 new cases reported on Saturday. So far, a total of 7,99,520 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Mumbai and 16,377 people have died due to infection.
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According to a press release by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), children will be vaccinated at nine ‘Jumbo COVID-19’ centers, apart from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital in Byculla. Only children of railway employees will be vaccinated at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital in Byculla. According to the guidelines of the Union Health Ministry, children in this age group will be given only one dose of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’.
The civic body said that children of BMC-run schools as well as children of other schools would be vaccinated free of cost. BMC calls upon parents to get their children vaccinated. As of Saturday, a total of 1,80,04,281 people in Mumbai were given doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccines, of which 80,48,075 received both, since the start of the vaccination campaign for adults on January 16, 2021, according to official data. The dose has been given.
Dr. Suryakant Devkar, Chief Immunization Officer of the city’s civic body said that in Pune, vaccination of children of this age group started on Monday at 40 centers. Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol formally launched the special drive at Dalvi Hospital, one of the city’s 40 centres. “After getting vaccinated, the children were given rose flowers, pens and masks,” Deokar said.
He said that the parents along with their children reached the vaccination center and the teenagers appeared very happy and excited. 250 doses of ‘Covaccine’ are available at each centre, of which half the doses will be given to children registered online and the rest to children reaching the center without registering.
The Drug Controller General of India on December 24 approved the emergency use of indigenously developed Bharat Biotech’s anti-Covid-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’ for children above 12 years of age with certain conditions. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday said that states and union territories should take necessary measures, including setting up of separate vaccination centers, to avoid mixing of anti-COVID-19 vaccines during vaccination of adolescents in the age group of 15 to 18 years. should do. (agency)