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Centre releases new vaccination guidelines for Covid-19 recovered patients - Know here - As per orders by the health ministry, in case of individuals having lab test proven Covid-19 illness, Covid vaccine will be delayed by three months.

Health Ministry has asked the states and UTs to defer vaccination, including the precaution dose, by three months if the beneficiary tests positive.

According to the Centre's new rule, Covid vaccination, including precaution doses, will be delayed by three months post recovery.

Union Health Ministry said requests have been received from various quarters for guidance in regard to the administration of precaution dose to the eligible persons having Covid illness.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said over 50 lakh healthcare and frontline workers and citizens aged 60 years or above have received Precaution Dose since January 10.

India has so far administered more than 50 lakh precaution doses of Covid-19 vaccine to healthcare workers, frontline workers and 60 plus population.

In his address to the nation on December 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the precautionary doses of vaccine will be started for healthcare, frontline workers and citizens above 60 years with co-morbidities starting January 10, 2022.

Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao on Tuesday has written to the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya seeking to reduce the gap for administering the 'precaution dose' from existing nine months to six months. In the letter, he has also urged to further reduce gap between these vaccine doses to three months for health care workers.

India has so far administered more than 50 lakh precaution doses of Covid-19 vaccine to healthcare workers, frontline workers and 60 plus population.Terming it a "milestone", Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya requested all those ...

Over nine lakh beneficiaries received their third dose of the Covid vaccine on the first day of the drive to administer the Precaution Dose to the healthcare workers, frontline workers and sixty plus individuals commenced on Monday across the country.