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Omicron spread: Third Covid shot after nine months of second jab

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A health worker collects a swab sample for Covid-19 test at New Delhi railway station. The city recorded 331 fresh cases on Monday, the highest single-day spike since June 9. In Mumbai, 809 new cases were detected | Photo: PTI

Sohini Das Mumbai
The gap between the second and the third doses of Covid vaccines given to co-morbid elderly, and health care and frontline workers has been set at least nine months, guidelines for Covid vaccinations for children and precaution dose issued on Monday said. Covaxin is the only option for children between 15 years and 18 years, the government said.

The Ministry of Health guidelines noted that in view of the recent global surge in Covid-19 cases, detection of Omicron variant, scientific evidence, and inputs and suggestions of ‘Covid-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advi­sory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI)’, as well as

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