chandigarh covaxin doses will be administered to children between 15 and 18 years of age and registration for the cowin portal shall open from january 1 onwards guidelines for booster shots are yet to be issued to the chandigarh administration these will be given from january 10 onwardsaccording to the list released by the government of india there are 72000 eligible children in this age group who shall be immunised in the city we will decide on sites which will be different from the existing ones for covishield for adults to avoid any confusion these will be all hospital based said ut health secretary yashpal gargas per the latest guidelines of the ministry of health and family welfare pgi will start administering covid vaccine in the advanced pediatric center to all children aged 15 and 18 years of age the children will receive two doses of covaxin at an interval of 28 days intramuscularly in the arm parents can register their children on the cowin application using the aadhar cardfrom january 10 onwards all healthcare workers frontline workers and the elderly with comorbidities will receive precautionary dose in line with goi guidelines at lt 1 nehru building pgi director health services ut dr suman singh said cowin system will send sms to such beneficiaries for availing precaution dose when the dose becomes due registration and appointment services can be accessed through both the online and the onsite modesafter a 9 month gap of complete immunisation booster doses will be given to these categories as as now nothing has been communicated on which vaccine will be given for the booster dose it may or may not be covishield said the ut health secretarythere will be a waiting period of 30 minutes after the vaccine children can also develop body aches and fever they will be given paracetamol after inoculation but vaccination is significant to protect them from the coming surge of covid and all must come forward said prof madhu gupta principal investigator for covovax trial among children in pgivaccination for the adult population started in the city from january 16 till date 85 of the adult population has been fully vaccinated against covid chandigarh has 31374 frontline workers while there are 20000 registered healthcare workers in the city