After much contemplation and delay, the booster dose against Covid-19 for healthcare, frontline workers and senior citizens started on January 10. Amid the third pandemic wave and fast spreading Omicron variant, the state Covid Task Force, in its meeting late on Monday elaborately discussed whether people with comorbidities should also be allowed to take the  booster vaccine. But there was no outcome on the issue.

More and more people are getting affected in the third wave. Therefore we discussed if the booster dose should be extended to people who have comorbidities and are immunocompromised. However, we couldn’t reach an agreement on who it should be given to apart from senior citizens,” said a task force member.