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INSACOG says booster shot suggestion not its mandate, didn't recommend it

Says immunity and protection from SARS-CoV-2 is multifactorial with several unknown factors and further compounded by emerging variants of concern

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A healthcare worker administers a dose of Covid-19 vaccine to a woman in Yamuna Pusta, Delhi, on September15, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi
Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) has clarified that it has not recommended or suggested a booster dose in the national immunisation programme and that suggestions regarding vaccines, their schedule, and roll out is an express mandate of the  National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) and National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC).

In its latest newsletter INSACOG has said that immunity and protection from SARS-CoV-2 is multifactorial with several unknown factors and further compounded by emerging variants of concern. “Many more scientific experiments are needed to assess the impacts of booster dose, which are being guided and