Covid Vaccines For Children Likely By September: AIIMS Chief To NDTV

India is likely to start vaccinating children by September, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV this morning as he underlined that it will be an important move to break the chain of transmission.

Hopefully, by September, we should start vaccinating children, and that will be a big boost as far as breaking the chain of transmission is concerned," Dr Guleria said.

On Friday, the European medicines watchdog approved the use of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine for children aged 12 to 17.

We will hopefully have more than one vaccine for children by September," the AIIMS chief said today.

Earlier this month, Dr NK Arora, who heads the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration, had told NDTV that vaccination for children will start by September with the Zydus vaccine for 12 to 18-year-olds.

India can hope to open its schools fully by the end of this year as children get vaccinated, the AIIMS chief further said

By October, November or end of the year, when children start getting vaccinated, we should be in a position that schools open fully," he shared.