The Food and Drug Administration has approved administering a second COVID-19 booster shot for select individuals, the Department of Health said.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved administering a second Covid-19 booster shot for select individuals, the Department of Health said on Wednesday, April 13.
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. In a statement, the DOH said it already received “additional emergency use authorization from the FDA to administer an additional Covid-19 vaccine booster dose to all senior citizens 60 years old and above, the immunocompromised, and frontline healthcare workers.”“This second booster dose shall be given at least four months after the first booster,” the DOH said.
“For moderately and severely immunocompromised patients, the second booster could be given earlier subject to the attending physician’s assessment,” it added.“The National COVID-19 Vaccination Operations Center or NVOC is now drafting guidelines for implementation of the second booster dose roll-out,” the DOH said.
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