₹225 a shot at private hospitals. New Delhi: Many leading private hospitals have stopped offering booster doses in response to a reluctance among the general public to take the jab despite a surge in cases of covid-19.

Booster doses are free only for the elderly, and healthcare and frontline workers at government hospitals. All others have to buy the vaccines at ₹225 a shot at private hospitals.

In India, almost the entire eligible population has received two doses. But out of them, only around 20% have taken the precautionary dose, prompting the government to issue a fresh call for people to take the third jab.

However, complacency has set in following persistent claims that Indians have built up ’hybrid immunity’—natural plus vaccine-generated immunity—against covid.

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