75 days free ‘Vaccine Booster’ from today : Central Govt Announcement

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur

New Delhi – From 15^th July, the Central Government announced that they will provide free of charge Corona preventive vaccine booster dose to all citizens in the age group of 18 to 59 years and this will be given for 75 days. Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur gave this information in the press conference.

The Union government will administer booster doses against #Covid19 free of cost to all adults for 75 days from July 15 to mark the country’s 75th year of Independencehttps://t.co/hPjsU9v5gZ

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So far, 96% of the eligible citizens have received the first dose, while 87% of the eligible citizens have received the second dose. However, less than 1% of 77 crore population in the age group of 18 to 59 years have taken the ‘booster dose’, said the officials in the Ministry of Health. An estimated 26% of the 16 crore citizens aged 60 and over citizens have taken the booster doses.