Amid demands for a booster vaccine dose, India’s top genome scientists have said it “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 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 on November 29. The INSACOG is a network of national testing labs set up by the government to monitor genomic variations of COVID. Two Omicron cases were found in Karnataka. 

With the nation in the grip of Omicron fears, the country’s top genome scientists have said that there is a need to inoculate all unvaccinated at-risk people apart from considering giving a booster dose to those above 40 years of age.