According to the guidelines by the Union Government for COVID vaccination for children, both walk-in and online registration will be available.<\/p>\n
The vaccination for children will begin on January 3. According to the guidelines, apart from government ID cards, children can also book slots for vaccination on using their school and college ID cards from January 1.\u00a0 Children can also register themselves using their parents\u2019 existing Co-WIN accounts or after creating a new account through a unique mobile number.<\/p>\n
The Union Health Ministry had earlier stated that “children born in 2007 and earlier shall be eligible to receive the vaccine”. On December 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Covid vaccination for children aged 15-18 years will begin from January 3 while the healthcare and frontline workers will start receiving the “precautionary doses” from January 10.<\/p>\n
Drug regulatory authority has given approval to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for vaccination for the age group between 12 and 18 years under restricted emergency use. Last week, the Centre advised states to set up separate dedicated COVID Vaccination Centres (CVC) for children. According to Registrar General and Census Commissioner, around 2.75 crore children, under the age group of 15 to 18 years can take the vaccine.<\/p>\n
Children, including very young children, can develop COVID-19. Many of them have no symptoms. Those that do get sick tend to experience milder symptoms such fever, rash, stomach pain, bloodshot eyes, neck pain, red, cracked lips, swollen hands or feet, vomiting, diarrhea, very red tongue, swollen lymph nodes on the neck, irritability, sleeping a lot and weakness.<\/p>\n