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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 16): The government will provide booster jabs (the third dose after full vaccination of the second jab), prioritising vulnerable people and health care staff.
According to a report by health news portal CodeBlue yesterday, the Special Committee on Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV) wants to have booster vaccinations “first for high-risk groups in states that have fully inoculated more than 80 per cent of their adult population”.
The portal stated that based on documents it “sighted” for the report, the groups that will have the booster jabs are individuals with weak immune systems; adults aged 60 years and older with underlying health conditions; individuals who stay and work in long-term care facilities; frontline health care workers who are at high-risk of infection; and people previously infected with Covid-19 who completed inoculation in the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK).
Another priority group for booster jabs are people aged 18 to 59 with comorbidities who are at high risk of getting re-infected with the coronavirus, and other frontline workers.
The report also revealed that JKJAV is recommending that booster jabs of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca for the priority groups be administered between six and eight months after completing vaccination.
“It is not immediately clear if the booster campaign allows heterologous vaccination, where individuals can get an additional jab of a different vaccine brand from the first two doses received,” wrote CodeBlue.
To date, only the Klang Valley, Negeri Sembilan, Labuan, and Sarawak have passed the threshold of having fully inoculating more than 80 per cent of their adult population.
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