‘Booster doses the best defence against Omicron’


GEORGE TOWN: As scientists are scrambling to understand the level of severity of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, health experts are advising the public that booster jabs are the best defence.

Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun Infectious Diseases Physician Dr Steven Lim Chee Loon (pic) said the virus constantly changed through mutation and the emergence of new variants was inevitable as long as the public allowed the virus to consistently multiply and transmit in the community.

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