India will start rolling out its first COVID-19 vaccines for teenagers aged 15 and above starting Jan. 3, 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday. “This decision will not only strengthen the nation’s fight against coronavirus, but it will also reduce the worries for school-going children and their parents,” he said in a live broadcast. The country will also offer booster doses for people above the age of 60 starting from Jan. 10, 2022. Modi did not refer to the booster shots as such, but called then “precautionary dose[s]” of the COVID-19 vaccine. “Those above the age of 60 with co-morbidities will be provided an option of precautionary dose of vaccine on advice of the doctors,” he said. Health care and frontline workers will also be provided with COVID-19 vaccine booster doses starting on Jan. 10, 2022. “From the view of safety, the government has decided to give precautionary doses …