Mumbai: With the rise in COVID’s new variant Omicron, the threat is increasing too. Amid this Maharashtra’s Minister Aaditya Thackeray has appealed to the Centre to allow booster shots, and drop the vaccine gap to four weeks, and bring down the cut-off age for inoculations to 15.
In a letter to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Aaditya Thackeray cited three suggestions. These suggestions were brought to the notice, after Thackeray interacted with doctors, to protect people from emerging Covid variants.
All front-line workers and health care workers, the group that was first to receive Covid shots when vaccinations started early in the year, should be allowed a “third shot at their studied desire”, said Thackeray in his letter.
Reducing the minimum age for vaccination to 15 will “enable us to cover secondary schools and junior colleges with vaccine protection”, he wrote.
The Shiv Sena leader also recommended that the dose gap be reduced for wider coverage.
“If the gap between two doses is reduced to four weeks, just like for those applying to work or study abroad, the city will cover 100% of its population with the second dose by mid-January 2022, without asking for more vaccines or altering its delivery schedule,” Thackeray said. Maharashtra has 10 cases of the Omicron variant first detected in South Africa last month.
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Amid the Omicron scare, Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation chief Vijay Suryavanshi stated today that 109 of the 295 recent foreign returnees to the Thane district township are currently untraceable. Returnees to KDMC areas from ”at-risk” nations have to undergo 7-day home quarantine.
According to Vijay, Some of these people’s phones were turned off, and many of the last homes given were found to be locked.
Returnees to KDMC bounds from all “at-risk” nations must undertake a 7-day home quarantine, with a COVID-19 test administered on the eighth day, according to Mr. Suryavanshi.
“Even if the test is negative, they will be subjected to another seven-day home quarantine, and it will be the responsibility of housing society members to guarantee that the rule is followed. Marriages, meetings, and other events are being monitored for possible infractions “he stated
“Approximately 72% of persons in KDMC have received the first dosage of the vaccine, and 52% have been fully vaccinated,” he added.
Recently, an Omicron case was discovered in a Dombivali resident.
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