INSACOG recommends booster dose for 40+
The Indian SARSCoV-2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG), a network of national testing labs set up by the government to monitor genomic variations of Covid- 19, has recommended a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine for those above 40 years with preference to high-risk and high-exposure population.
The recommendation was made in INSACOG’s weekly bulletin. “Vaccination of all remaining unvaccinated at-risk people and consideration of a booster dose for those 40 years of age and over, first targeting the most high-risk / high-exposure may be considered,” it said.
This comes a day after India detected its first two confirmed cases of new coronavirus variant Omicron, classified as a ‘variant of concern’ by the World Health Organisation.
The INSACOG recommendation also comes amid demands for a booster dose of the Covid-9 vaccines by lawmakers during a discussion in the ongoing winter session of the Parliament in the Lok Sabha on the pandemic situation in the country.