Dr. NK Arora, head of NDTV’s Covid Task Force: He said the results of the dose trial of ZyCov-D are awaited.
New Delhi:
Dr. NK Arora, chairman of the country’s Covid Task Force, said that today the vaccination of children with cardiac arrhythmias will begin and will be followed by the rollout of the vaccine to healthy children in the coming weeks. first quarter of next year. There is also an effort to reduce the number of doses of ZyCoV-D – the Zydus-Cadilla vaccine from three to two, he said.
Like vaccination in adults, a “priority process has been put in place” for the country’s 44 children and a list of comorbidities is being prepared, he said.
“We’re going to take it one step at a time. But eventually, I think somewhere in the second half of December, I think we can start vaccinating children first. And as soon as we’ve finished those things. doing this, which is 10 to 15%, we move on to healthy babies,” Dr Arora told NDTV in an exclusive interview.
Outlining the plan, he said while they await the results of the dose trial of ZyCov-D, “Covaxin has also finished its trial and we are looking forward to the end of December and Covovax (from the Blood Institute) bar of India) will also complete their pediatric trial,” he said.
When asked why authorities are giving ZyCoV-D or Covishield injections to children without WHO approval, he said, “We’ve looked at the data, there are no safety concerns” because These are all inactivated vaccines.
Dr Arora said opening schools was “almost like an emergency” because children were suffering from “cognitive and intellectual problems, physical and all kinds of social development”. , Dr. Arora said, “I will ask the whole country the major that the school must open”.
“Parents should send their children because we have a cohort of adults who are well immunized. And special efforts have been made to get all schools and staff immunized. . so that children are covered by a protective ring.
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