The Covid-19 booster vaccination programme saw 98 AEFI reports per million doses as of April 8, lower than the overall vaccination programme’s rate of 377 reports per million doses.
If you received an appointment for a fourth Covid vaccine dose for yourself or a booster appointment for your teenage kid, please cancel it; don’t turn up at the PPV.
Senior citizens and Sinovac primer vaccine adult recipients who fail to get their booster dose by March 31 will see their fully vaccinated status lapse.
Vaccine hesitancy is a challenge to the government’s plan to effectively battle the Omicron wave, especially when the caseload is expected to increase exponentially over the coming weeks.
The Covid-19 Vaccine Pharmacovigilance Special Committee is awaiting the completion of reports before evaluating the remaining 22 deaths reported among Covid-19 booster vaccine recipients.