Tag: booster vaccines

24 September 2021

Malaysia Prioritises Third Covid-19 Jab For Elderly, Immunocompromised

Khairy Jamaluddin says the third shot is for people who don’t gain sufficient immune response from two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, whereas boosters are to curb waning immunity in other individuals who responded well to double vaccination.

23 September 2021

World

US FDA Approves Pfizer Booster Jabs For Elderly, High-Risk Groups

The FDA has approved a single booster shot of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for senior citizens aged 65 and older and certain high-risk groups, after previously authorising a third dose in a three-dose primary vaccination series for immunocompromised individuals.

22 September 2021

Malaysia

Medical Groups Want Evidence To Justify Covid-19 Boosters

The Malaysian Health Coalition tells MOH to publish local data on increased cases, hospitalisation, or deaths from Covid-19 in high-risk groups, including breakthrough cases, that would prove the need for booster shots.

17 September 2021

Malaysia

Sarawak Set To Roll Out Covid-19 Booster Shots

Dr Sim Kui Hian says third jabs will be offered to three priority groups in line with the target recipients in the first three phases of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.

15 September 2021

Malaysia

JKJAV Approves Covid-19 Booster Jabs, Vulnerable And Health Workers Prioritised

Covid-19 vaccine boosters will be prioritised for high-risk groups (immunocompromised, the elderly with comorbidities, residents and workers at long-term care facilities, frontline health workers, and people previously infected with Covid-19 who completed inoculation in Phase 1) in states that fully vaccinated more than 80% of their adult population.

Tag: booster vaccines

Malaysia Prioritises Third Covid-19 Jab For Elderly, Immunocompromised

US FDA Approves Pfizer Booster Jabs For Elderly, High-Risk Groups

Medical Groups Want Evidence To Justify Covid-19 Boosters

Sarawak Set To Roll Out Covid-19 Booster Shots

JKJAV Approves Covid-19 Booster Jabs, Vulnerable And Health Workers Prioritised

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