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Doctors urge govt to allow fourth booster dose for medical fraternity

They say protective effect of vaccine lasts nine months to a year. For health workers that period is already over and this is the right time to boost their immunity

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IMA | Indian doctors | indian medical association

Ruchika Chitravanshi & Sohini Das  |  New Delhi/ Mumbai 



The booster dose coverage in India is around 27 per cent.

The wants the government to consider allowing a fourth booster shot for doctors and other frontline health workers to protect them from any impending Covid surge in the country.

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First Published: Tue, December 27 2022. 18:18 IST

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