As private hospitals across the city have been getting requests for booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the state task force discussed it at a meeting held on Tuesday and reached at the unanimous decision of postponing it keeping in mind vaccine equality. Dr Kedar Toraskar, member of the state task force, said, “We need to think about vaccine equality. We can’t allow booster doses when only 10 per cent of the population is vaccinated.”

He said America has started giving booster shots because more than 75 per cent of its population was vaccinated. Dr Toraskar, who is also a critical care specialist at Wockhardt hospital, said considering public health it was too early to go ahead with a booster dose plan in India.