indore indore health department is all set to start administering booster dose to elderly persons above 60years of age along with the frontline and health care workers from mondayas per its estimate the health departments officials are expected to administer the third dose also called booster or precaution jab to as many as 96000 people who have completed 39 weeks from the second dosewe will start over 100 centers for the vaccination of people falling under the category of precaution dose including elderly persons above 60years of age frontline and health care workers chief medical and health officer cmho dr bs saitya said adding that there would be no need of registration for the third dose while booking of the slots have been started on covid portal the beneficiaries of the booster dose can also book the slot on the spot he saidaccording to indore health department officials the district has about 460 lakh people falling in categories of elderly persons above 60years of age along with the frontline and health care workers but as of now only those will turn eligible for precaution dose who have completed 39 weeks from the second dose of vaccination or 273 days are around 96000they added that the eligible beneficiaries of the precaution dose will from sunday start getting message on their phone in this regardmeanwhile the health department has so far inoculated as many as 158 lakh teenagers of age between 15 and 18 years in the last one week while remaining around 40000 beneficiaries of its target to vaccinate around 2 lakh children will be completed by january 10according to the cmho indore health department had completed its target of administering the first dose to 2807 lakh by august 30 tnn