Family members can also be covered under workplace COVID-19 vaccination: Govt
The Union Health Ministry Saturday introduced that household members and dependants of employees can also be covered under the COVID-19 vaccination drive at industrial and workplace inoculation centres. In a letter to all chief secretaries, the Health Ministry mentioned that for industrial and personal workplace CVCs (COVID-19 vaccination centres), the vaccine doses should be procured by the personal hospitals with whom the respective employer ties up.
“The family members and dependants of the workers, as defined by the respective employers, can also be covered with COVID-19 vaccination at the Industrial CVCS and the Workplace CVCS,” the ministry mentioned within the letter.
It mentioned that for presidency workplace CVCs, beneficiaries aged 45 years or extra could be covered by means of the free vaccine doses provided by the Centre to the states and Union Territories.
However, the beneficiaries within the age group of 18 to 44 years could be covered by means of the vaccine doses instantly procured by the respective State/UT governments from the vaccine producers, the ministry mentioned.
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