Children in 15-18 age group will be able to register on CoWIN from Jan 1 using student ID card

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Children in the age group of 15-18 will be able to register on the CoWIN app for their Covid-19 vaccine doses from January 1, chief of National Health Authority Dr. RS Sharma said on Monday.

“Children in the age group of 15-18 years will be able to register on the CoWIN app from Jan 1. We’ve added an additional (10th) ID card for registration – the student ID card because some might not have Aadhaar or other identity cards,” said Dr Sharma, who is also the chief of the CoWIN platform.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced that precaution doses of COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to healthcare and frontline workers in the country from 10th January, 2022.

“The process will be exactly the same. If you are above 60 years of age and have taken both doses and the gap between the second dose and the day you are registering is more than 9 months (39 weeks) then you are eligible,” Dr Sharma added.

This has been done in light of the amount of time the frontline workers and healthcare workers spend in the service of COVID patients.

The PM also announced that option of precaution dose will be available for senior citizens above 60 years of age with co-morbidities on the advice of their doctors from 10th January, 2022.

“When you will register, it will ask whether you have any comorbidities or not. If you say yes, you will be able to book and have to show the comorbidities certificate from registered doctor at the vaccination centre and then you can get jabs,” Dr Sharma said.