UAE, Bahrain giving Pfizer/ BioNTech shot as booster
Agencies | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are giving the Pfizer/ BioNTech vaccine as a booster shot to those initially immunised with Sinopharm’s vaccine.
Those eligible could receive a booster dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Sinopharm vaccines regardless of which vaccine they had initially taken.
“The government is not recommending which booster shot is chosen,” Waleed Khalifa Al Manea, the undersecretary of health, quoted as saying by Wall Street Journal.
Al Manea also told WSJ that the Sinopharm vaccine provided a high degree of protection. However, those in Bahrain who are older than 50, are obese or have chronic illnesses are urged to take a Pfizer booster shot six months after receiving their second Sinopharm dose, he told the paper.
In Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, a booster shot is available three months after administering the second shot, said a representative of Mubadala Health, part of the state fund. A different vaccine can be a booster shot, but it is at the recipient’s discretion, and health professionals do not make recommendations, the representative said.
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