P.E.I. expands eligibility for second COVID-19 booster doses to people 60 and older
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — P.E.I. residents 60 years of age and older are actually eligible for a second booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
In a Might 13 launch, the province introduced expanded eligibility for second vaccine booster doses meant to guard in opposition to COVID-19 and its variants. Present eligible teams for second booster doses in P.E.I. embrace folks in congregate residing settings, folks aged 60 and older and Indigenous adults aged 18 and older.
A second booster shot is accessible 4 to 6 months after receiving the primary booster dose. Islanders just lately contaminated with COVID-19 ought to wait three months after the onset of signs or testing constructive earlier than getting a COVID-19 vaccine or booster dose.
Chief public well being officer Dr. Heather Morrison stated retaining updated with vaccination continues to be the perfect instrument to stop hospitalization and critical sickness.
“Despite the fact that the variety of each day instances of COVID-19 proceed to say no on P.E.I., I strongly suggest Islanders who should not but vaccinated to get their main collection of the COVID-19 vaccine and their booster doses, when they’re eligible,” stated Morrison.
The transfer to increase eligibility for second booster photographs comes after the Nationwide Advisory Committee on Immunization really helpful deploying second booster doses to extra folks in April.
At the moment, some 49,000 Islanders 12 years of age and older are eligible to obtain their first booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
As of Might 8, 97.7 per cent of Island residents over the age of 12 acquired no less than one dose of vaccine, and 94.7 per cent have been totally vaccinated. In the meantime, 68.8 per cent of kids aged 5 to 11 had one dose of a vaccine, and 54 per cent have had two doses.
More information about COVID-19 booster doses, including eligibility, is available online.
