Covid booster

Suva: Fijians have been advised to get their booster doses against Covid-19 amid a spike in news cases. Fiji's Ministry of Health has recorded 61 new cases of Covid-19 this week, Xinhua news agency quoted a report by the Fiji…
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London: A second Covid-19 booster dose, or the fourth jab against the virus, boosts immunity more than the initial or the third dose, according to a UK trial. The UK rolled out fourth doses to over-75s and those over the age of 12 who…
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Washington: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering approving a fourth dose of a Covid-19 vaccine later in the year, the Wall Street Journal reported. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report claimed that the…
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New Delhi: The drive for administering precaution dose to the healthcare workers, frontline workers and 60-plus individuals commenced on Monday across the country. The CoWIN portal has sent over one crore reminder messages to the…
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London: Amid calls for pushing booster doses against Covid-19 in view of the new super mutant variant Omicron that is predicted to escape vaccine immunity, a new study published in The Lancet has shown that six different Covid boosters are…
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Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will send letters to citizens urging them to book their coronavirus booster vaccines as soon as possible, as the country is still battling the third wave of the pandemic. In the letter…
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New York: The agency expanded emergency use authorization for booster doses of both the mRNA vaccines beyond who was previously eligible -- boosters had been authorized for anyone 65 years and older who was vaccinated with the Pfizer or…
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New York: Drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech said on Tuesday that they had asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize booster shots of their Covid-19 vaccine for all adults 18 years old and over, seeking to broaden who is…
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London: the UK has kicked off a trial of what has been described as the world's first multi-variant vaccine booster against Covid-19 in the city of Manchester. On Monday, a married couple, both in their 60s, became the first participants…
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Jerusalem: A booster dose of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine can prevent both infections and severe illness in adults older than 60 shortly after the injection, according to a new study conducted in Israel. Israel had, on July 30, started…
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