Vaccination for Kids : Registration for Covid vaccination to begin from Jan 1 , using Student ID card .
Children in the age group of 15-18 years will be able to register on the CoWIN app from January 1, two days before the vaccination programme is expanded across the country to include them, a top official said on Monday.
“We have added an additional (10th) ID card for registration, the student ID card, because some might not have Aadhaar or other identity cards,” RS Sharma, chief executive officer of the National Health Authority, which also operates the government’s CoWIN platform, was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Saturday children aged 15-18 would start receiving Covid-19 vaccinations from January 3 and healthcare and frontline workers will start getting the shots as a precautionary measure from January 10 as cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant rose across the country.
This will reduce the worries of children going to schools and colleges and their parents, and boost the fight against the pandemic, PM Modi said, adding that the move is also likely to aid in the normalisation of teaching in schools.
PM Modi had also said that more than 61% of India’s adult population had received both doses of the vaccine and about 90% had got at least one dose of a vaccine.
