The Ministry of Health has announced that COVID-19 booster doses will now be available to persons five months after they have been fully inoculated.
This was disclosed by Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, during his daily COVID-19 update on Tuesday, where he stated that booster doses are now widely recommended since immunity begins to wane six months after first being fully inoculated. This means that the efficacy of ‘manufactured’ antibodies begins to drop and they are no longer very effective. “However what they have found, is that if between 5 to 6 months you are given a third dose, which is the booster shot, then the immunity remains quite high and so it is recommended that you get your primary series and then you do a booster shot,” he said.