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

Ruchika ChitravanshiSohini Das New Delhi/ Mumbai
The Indian Medical Association 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.

IMA president J A Jayalal told Business Standard that doctors have had a bitter experience in the past Covid wave and it was prudent to give a fourth shot to those who have already had the precaution dose.

“The protective effect of the vaccine lasts for about nine months to a year. For health workers that period is already over. This is the right time to augment their

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