Those aged 60 and above who don't want a second booster will not lose their fully vax status; healthy elderly can get a doctor's recommendation for a second booster.
10 EU countries do not recognise Sinovac or Sinopharm: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, and Romania.
Malaysia has received 3,894,000 doses of Pfizer’s children’s vaccine to date (if scheduled deliveries arrived), but only 1,604,135 doses have been administered in PICKids (41%) as of April 13.
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.
Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman also urges recipients of Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine to get a 3rd jab, saying Sinovac is a 3-dose vaccine and the 4th dose is a booster, whereas an mRNA vaccine is a 2-dose vaccine.
Many nations that have good vaccination rates and have lifted restrictions have suffered new waves, showing us how fragile we still are in the face of Covid-19.