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Australia to shorten booster intervals as Omicron pushes cases to records

SYDNEY, Australia would further shorten the wait time for people to receive their COVID-19 booster shots, Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Friday, as the country grapples with record infections fuelled by the Omicron variant.

Booster shots will be offered from 4th January to everyone over 18 who had their second shot four months earlier and the interval will be again reduced to three months by the end of January.

“These dates have been set out of an abundance of caution to give Australians early continued protection,” Hunt said during a media conference in Canberra, said Reuters.

Australia has been looking to ramp up the rollout of boosters after becoming one of the world’s most-vaccinated countries against COVID-19, with more than 90 percent of people over the age of 16 having received two doses.

A growing number of countries are reducing the wait time for boosters from six months after the emergence of the Omicron variant. This month, South Korea, Britain and Thailand cut that interval to three months, Reuters reported.

 

Source: Emirates News Agency

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