“We encourage everyone eligible for the booster vaccination to receive it when it is offered to them, so as to achieve high levels of protection,” it added. Typically, you would get a booster after the immunity from the initial dose (s) naturally starts to wane. In its press release, MOH said booster vaccination “significantly increases” protection against infection and severe disease, as well as prevents waning of vaccine protection. A COVID booster shot is an additional dose of a vaccine given after the protection provided by the original shot (s) has begun to decrease over time.
"This means by year-end, half of our population will be freshly boosted with high levels of antibodies," he told reporters. Is a booster recommended for the vaccine you received Pfizer and Moderna. This will raise Singapore's booster vaccination coverage from 21 per cent to 50 per cent, he added. People can get a booster dose at most locations that provide COVID-19 vaccines. There is an emerging view among the global clinical and scientific communities that COVID-19 vaccination against the Delta variant is “really a three-dose vaccine, like (for) Hepatitis B”, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung at a COVID-19 multi-ministry task force press conference on Saturday.įrom now until the end of December, the Government hopes to administer about 1.5 million booster shots, Mr Ong said.
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