Though Maharashtra and Mumbai-specific data was not available, the BMC said it has made elaborate arrangements to vaccinate 9.22 lakh teenagers in this age group at Mumbai’s nine jumbo Covid centres.
The detailed Omicron protocol at Delhi's IGI airport gives way to chaos once one tests positive, indicates the experience of a family from the UK who came to India to spend Christmas and New Year with their relatives and friends.
Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray has, in a letter to Union Health minister Mansukh Mandviya requested him to reduce the minimum age of vaccination from 18 years to 15 years, in order to keep school and college-going students safe from the infection.