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The government has reduced the gap between second jab and precautionary dose of coronavirus vaccine to six months.
NTAGI had recommended reducing the gap between the second and precaution Covid dose. (Image for Representtaion)
The government has reduced the gap between the second dose of the Covid vaccine and the precautionary dose from 9 months to 6 months. The government’s advisory body on vaccination-the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI)-had recommended reducing the gap between the second jab and the booster dose.
Earlier, the duration between the second dose and precaution dose was 9 months. It has now been reduced to 6 months or 26 weeks.
“The precaution dose for all beneficiaries from 18-59 years will be administered after completion of 6 months or 26 weeks from the date of administration of second dose at Private Covid Vaccination Centres (CVCs),” Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in a letter to chief secretaries and Administrators of all states and Union Territories.
“For beneficiaries above 60 years and above as well as the Health Care Workers (HCWs) & Front Line Workers (FLWs), precaution dose would be administered after completion of 6 months or 26 weeks from the date of administration of second dose at Government CVCs, free of charge,” the letter read.
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