Booster vaccination builds protection against Omicron


THE Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (AMM) supports the statement made by the Health Minister on Dec 16, 2021, emphasising the need for a third vaccine dose as per the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation.

This announcement was made specifically for selected individuals in the high-risk categories such as senior citizens above 60 years of age and Sinovac primary series vaccine recipients aged above 18 years. According to Malaysia’s CovidNow database, 40% of the eligible adult population have not received their booster dose yet.

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