NEW DELHI : Official sources on Sunday confirmed that National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in their meeting scheduled on Monday 6 December is set to discuss the issue of administering an ‘ additional’ dose of Covid-19 vaccine to immunocompromised individuals.
The officials confirmed that the additional dose of vaccine is different from a booster shot. A booster dose is given to an individual after a predefined period when the immune response due to primary vaccination is presumed to have declined.
The additional dose is given to immunocompromised and immunosuppressed individuals when primary schedule of vaccination does not provide adequate protection from the infection and disease.