WHO experts back extra Covid jab for immunocompromised | Malay Mail

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GENEVA, Oct 11 — The World Health Organisation’s vaccine advisers today recommended people with weaker immune systems should be offered an additional dose of all authorised Covid-19 vaccines. The UN health agency’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation (SAGE) also said over-60s...

GENEVA, Oct 11 — The World Health Organisation’s vaccine advisers today recommended people with weaker immune systems should be offered an additional dose of all authorised Covid-19 vaccines.

The experts stressed they were not recommending an additional so-called booster dose for the population at large. “SAGE recommended that moderately and severely immunocompromised persons should be offered an additional dose of all WHO EUL Covid-19 vaccines as part of an extended primary series,” the group said.

 

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