Healthcare workers and those above the age of 60 and suffering from co-morbidities will be applicable for the 'precautionary dose' of coronavirus vaccine from next month, according to Dr. R S Sharma, Chief Executive officer at National Health Authority.

Dr Sharma, who also heads the functioning of the CoWIN platform, in an exclusive interview to ANI, on Monday said that the third dose to senior citizens without comorbidities is only applicable after nine months of receiving the second Covid-19 vaccine shot. "The process will be exactly the same. When you are more than 60 years of age and you have already been given two doses and if you want to register for the third dose, the gap between the second dose and the day you are registering or the day you are getting the third dose should be more than nine months which is 39 weeks," said Dr. Sharma.