Postal assistant Poonam Kumari is trying to sort out how to fix the Covid-19 vaccine certificates of her sons, aged 16 and 17. The teenagers were inadvertently administered Covishield, instead of Covaxin, as the first dose of vaccine against coronavirus after the government approved only one vaccine for children in the 15-18 years age group and opened vaccination slots on January 3. CoWIN portal does not allow the parents to choose any other vaccine for their children.
The officials concerned at the Nalanda civil surgeon’s office were brash when my children last met them in February to correct their vaccination certificates. They shooed away my children, saying they had nothing to worry as they did not report any adverse event following immunisation (AEFI), said Kumari. Kumari and her children have since been running from pillar to post to correct the mistake in their vaccination certificate.
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