TS starts administering Covid vax booster dose

Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Wednesday commenced administering booster doses as a precautionary measure in view of increase in Covid-19 cases.

The State government has arranged five lakh doses of Corbevax, manufactured by Hyderabad-based Biological E. The State government has made all arrangements to administer the vaccines to all the eligible citizens at government Covid vaccine centres like primary health centres and urban primary health centres.

Director of Public Health and Family Welfare G Srinivasa Rao said the doses have been arranged in view of the rise in Covid cases in many countries around the world as well in some States within the country.

Corbevax can be administered as a precautionary dose to those beneficiaries who have taken Covaxin or Covishield as first and second dose. The government of India has already approved Corbevax for heterologous administration. The director of public health appealed to people to use this opportunity.