Current strategy is to ensure every adult in India is covered with both doses of Covid vaccine: Dr VK Paul

Dr Vinod Kumar Paul, member of the NITI Aayog said that amid the backdrop of the Omicron variant, the current strategy is to ensure that the adult population of India is covered with both doses of the vaccines.

“The current strategy and effective strategy is to ensure that the adult population of India is covered with the two vaccines that are in our program-Covishield and Covaxin, and now a DNA vaccine may also be added to an extent. This is the most effective step that we can and should take in the current scenario. That includes factoring in for the Omicron surge visible in a certain way globally although in India we're finding very few cases as of now. We need to cover every adult of our nation with both doses of the vaccines,” said Dr Vinod Kumar Paul