Center has accepted my suggestion for COVID vaccine booster dose: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the Center has “accepted my suggestion” to allow the administration of booster doses of the COVID vaccine and said that every citizen of the country should be provided with the protection of vaccines and booster shots. should be done. His remarks came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that a “precautionary dose” for health care and frontline workers would be administered from January 10.

In an address to the nation, Modi said the precautionary dose would also be available to citizens above 60 years of age and with comorbidities on the advice of their doctor. In a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi said, using the hashtag, “The central government has accepted my suggestion for a booster dose – it is a right move. Everyone in the country has to be protected by vaccines and booster shots.” ” BoosterJab’ and ‘VaccinetIndia’.

The former Congress chief also tagged his tweet posted on December 22 in which he said that the majority of the country’s population was still not vaccinated against COVID-19 and asked the government when it would start booster shots.