Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said a total of 2,488 COVID-19 booster shots have been administered to health care workers nationwide.
"All of them were managed accordingly. Wala naman pong na-hospitalize at wala rin pong bad outcome," Vergeire noted in a public briefing. Vergeire added that they are still evaluating data on how many health care workers received homologous and heterologous booster COVID-19 doses. A heterologous booster means that a person got a different brand of vaccine after their first 2 jabs, the Food and Drug Administration said.
Meanwhile, guidelines for booster doses of senior citizens and immunocompromised people are still being finalized. It will be released "in the coming days," the health official said. "The major difference, ito pong sa ating senior citizens, at saka sa immunocompromised, tinitingnan po natin kasi it is medically indicated. At kailangan po kapag immunocompromised, kailangan 3rd dose," she said. Philippine authorities this week started giving booster shots to health workers who already got a second COVID-19 vaccine shot 6 months ago.
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