Tag Archives: Booster

The Ontario government says children who are five to 11 years old are eligible for a COVID-19 bivalent booster shot, following approval from Health Canada. Shots will be available for this age group starting on Dec. 21. “All Ontarians are strongly encouraged to keep up to date with their flu …

The rollout of British Columbia’s fall COVID-19 booster program is expected to begin next week, according to provincial health authorities.  Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said everyone five and older is encouraged to get a fall booster six months after their last shot. For those who developed COVID-19 after their last …

Students at Western University are disappointed with the school’s decision to implement masking and booster dose requirements for the fall semester, and waiting until after the tuition deadline to announce the measures. Second-year student, Nathalia Aranda says she’s confused about the justification that led to the decision and feels the university hasn’t given students a solid answer.  …

British drug regulators have become the first in the world to authorize an updated version of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine that aims to protect against the original virus and the Omicron variant. In a statement on Monday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had given the green light to …

Jerusalem: Amid rising cases of Omicron, a preliminary study by Israeli researchers has shown that the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine boosts antibodies five-fold in just a week after the shot is administered, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday. Bennett spoke during a visit to the Sheba Medical Center, …

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) in its recent weekly bulletin has said that many more scientific experiments are needed to assess the impacts of booster dose, which are being guided and monitored by National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) and National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for …

Many experts have recommended booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in India, especially for those with comorbidities or healthcare workers as they have already received both doses. But according to the government sources, the Centre is right now focusing on maximum coverage of full vaccination under the ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ …

New Delhi: A new study of about 5,000 Israeli health workers, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has found that there is a continuous decrease in protective antibodies during the six months after the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is administered.  The research states that boosters are …

New Delhi: Amid reports and speculations about a possible booster shot of Coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry on Thursday said that getting the entire population inoculated by both doses of the jab is government’s first priority at the moment.  Addressing a press conference earlier in the day, India Council of …

For people who received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the past few months have been a bit of a bumpy ride with news of side effects, pauses and restarts and now boosters. Maureen Ferran is a virologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has been keeping tabs on …