Sinovac recipients, seniors will lose ‘fully vaccinated’ status without booster shot
All Sinovac recipients aged 18 and above and all individuals aged 60 and above will lose their “fully vaccinated” status if they do not receive a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot by February 2022, said Khairy Jamaluddin.
“For the population above 60-year-old (regardless of the type of vaccine taken prior to this) and all Sinovac recipients aged above 18 need to get a booster shot by February 2022 to maintain their ‘fully vaccinated’ status.
The health minister also...
All Sinovac recipients aged 18 and above and all individuals aged 60 and above will lose their “fully vaccinated” status if they do not receive a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot by February 2022, said Khairy Jamaluddin.
“For those above 60-year-old (regardless of the type of vaccine taken prior to this) and all Sinovac recipients aged above 18 need to get a booster shot by February 2022 to maintain their ‘fully vaccinated’ status.
The health minister also announced the return of mega vaccination centres to expedite the administration of booster shots.
"Mega vaccination centres will be re-implemented in order to accelerate the vaccination process, starting in the Klang Valley," he told a press conference at Parliament today.
"All Sinovac recipients aged above 18 need to get a booster shot by February 2022 to maintain their ‘fully vaccinated’ status.
"If (you) do not do so, your status (the digital Covid-19 vaccination certificate) will be switched to white label," he added.
This was among the measures decided by the Health Ministry after the country detected the second case of Omicron variant of the Covid-19 in an eight-year-old who just returned from Nigeria and 18 suspected cases of Omicron.
He said the decision was in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) which recommended that Sinovac vaccine recipients and senior citizens aged 60 and above (regardless of the type of primary vaccine) take booster dose to maintain the full vaccination status.
"This proposal was approved at Covid-19-Booster Immunisation Special Task Force (CITF-B) meeting on Dec 8," he said.
As of Dec 15, a total of 159,345 individuals have received their booster shots.
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