A total of 3.37 lakh health care workers, frontline workers and those over 60 with co-morbidities will be administered precautionary dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Dakshina Kannada from January 10, Monday. Dakshina Kannada District Health and Family Welfare Officer M. Kishore Kumar, there are 2.69 lakh people aged 60 and above, 52,523 health care workers and 15,924 frontline workers eligible for receiving the precautionary dose of the vaccine. The precautionary dose will be given to those who have taken the second dose of the vaccine nine months ago. The precautionary dose will be the same vaccine which the beneficiaries have taken earlier, as in the first two doses. The beneficiaries will be receiving an SMS from the Health and Family Welfare Department. The beneficiaries can directly go to the vaccination centre or book an appointment online. Whereas in Udupi, as many as 23,125 health workers and 7,311 frontline workers are among those who will receive the precautionary dose in Udupi district. Udupi Deputy Commissioner M. Kurma Rao said that the district administration has planned to give the precautionary dose to all eligible beneficiaries in the next seven days. Special vaccination camps will be organized to reach out to all beneficiaries.