{"id":157192,"date":"2021-04-30T00:47:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=157192"},"modified":"2021-04-30T00:47:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:17:34","slug":"official-launch-of-free-covid-vaccination-deferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/04\/30\/official-launch-of-free-covid-vaccination-deferred\/","title":{"rendered":"Official launch of free Covid vaccination deferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 29 Apr:<\/strong> The health department has said that, due to technical reasons, the official launch of Covid-19 vaccination for those between 18 and 44 years of age has been deferred till further confirmation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;However, instructions have been passed to the districts to make necessary preparations for covering 18-44 years age group under the new strategy when launched,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state government has decided to vaccinate its population aged between 18 and 45 years free of cost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In view of the urgency to control the second wave of Covid-19, along with other strategies, Covid-19 vaccination for priority groups (healthcare workers, frontline workers and other citizens above 45 years of age) is ongoing and is to be continued,&#8221; said state NHM Mission Director CR Khampa in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khampa said that the Centre has declared a &#8220;liberalized pricing and accelerated national Covid-19 vaccination strategy with effect from 1 May, which will cover all persons aged 18 to 45 years from state government-procured Covid vaccine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 29 Apr: The health department has said that, due to technical reasons, the official launch of Covid-19 vaccination for those between 18 and 44 years of age has been deferred till further confirmation. &#8220;However, instructions have been passed to the districts to make necessary preparations for covering 18-44 years age group under the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}