Last month Dr N K Arora, chief of covid-19 working group had recommended to the health ministry to include the jab over CoWIN platform as a heterologous booster dose for adults.
New Delhi: Amid covid surge and poor coverage of booster dose, Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla on Tuesday recommended elderly people to take Covovax booster dose.
He informed that the vaccine is now available on CoWIN portal and is excellent against all the variants. Right now, the coverage of precaution dose is 22.87 crore of the total 220.66 crore vaccination dose. “As covid cases have been rising again with Omicron XBB & its variants, it can be severe for the elderly.
I’d suggest for the elderly, mask up & take the Covovax booster which is now available on the CoWIN app. It is excellent against all variants & is approved in the US & Europe," Poonawalla tweeted.