The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has given approval to the COVID-19 vaccination for veterans and their dependents at service hospitals from next week.
The Indian Army in Tweet posted on Saturday said that "Approval of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for vaccination of veterans (includes their dependents) and dependents of Armed Forces personnel in Service hospitals has been received."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The process is likely to commence next week after completion of registration of Armed Forces medical facilities on Co-WIN Platform. Guidelines for the same will be issued in a few days. (2/2)</p>— ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) <a >March 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
"The process is likely to commence next week after the completion of registration of Armed Forces medical facilities on Co-WIN platform. Guidelines for the same will be issued in a few days," the Indian Army added.
The Indian government had last month announced that everyone above 60 years of age and those over 45 years with comorbidities will be able to get COVID-19 vaccine from March 1 for free at government facilities.
In order to approach for the vaccination, citizens can register and book an appointment for vaccination, anytime and anywhere, using the Co-WIN 2.0 portal. Some veterans - aged over 60 or 45 with comorbidities - have already got themselves vaccinated at government-approved centres.