A person draws out Moderna vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Kingston, Ont., Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) says people should get another COVID-19 booster in the fall if it's been at least six months since their last dose or COVID-19 infection. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
OTTAWA – Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) says people should get another COVID-19 vaccine booster in the fall if it’s been at least six months since their last dose or COVID-19 infection.
It says the booster doses will be new formulations updated to target more recent, immune-evasive variants.
NACI continues to strongly recommend that anyone five years of age and older who hasn’t yet been vaccinated should be immunized with a primary two-dose series of an mRNA vaccine.
It also has a”discretionary recommendation” that children six months to five years of age who haven’t yet been vaccinated get the two-dose primary series of an mRNA vaccine.
In June, NACI said that the bivalent mRNA vaccines can be used for people receiving their first two-dose vaccination series.
The mRNA vaccines available in Canada are manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 11, 2023.
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