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Consider booster dose for 40 and above, say India’s top genome scientists

New Delhi: Amid demands for a booster vaccine dose against COVID-19, India’s top genome scientists have said that a booster dose “may be considered” for people above 40 years.

“Vaccination of all remaining unvaccinated at-risk people and consideration of a booster dose for those 40 years of age and over, first targeting the most high-risk/high-exposure may be considered,” the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG) said in its weekly bulletin dated November 29.