Also Read | Why India needs to look east at Taiwan“Inclusion of all persons above age of 45 for covid-19 vaccination is under consideration.
Gradually the government anyway has to inoculate all groups in stages. But currently, the number of covid-19 infections is rising and there is a need to protect maximum number of people from the disease by vaccinating them.
We are working on the final details of the roll out before taking a decision," said Samiran Panda, head, epidemiology and communicable diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).Panda, also a member of the government’s National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC), had earlier said the government would tailor the covid-19 vaccination strategy.