Singapore says booster shots needed in order to maintain fully vaccinated status
….“Persons aged 18 years and above who completed a primary vaccination series should receive a booster dose of an mRNA vaccine no later than 270 days after the last dose in the primary vaccination series,” said the press release.
That means people who opted for non-mRNA vaccines will need to receive an mRNA shot as a booster.
However, the press release suggested that a non-mRNA vaccine by Novavax may be available as a booster shot before the deadline.
“For this group, most will not be due for [boosters] for some time,” the health ministry said. “We expect the Novavax vaccine, which is a non-mRNA vaccine, to be available to them as an option by then.”……….
Novavax has not been approved for use in Singapore, but Singapore’s director of medical services at the health ministry, Kenneth Mak, told reporters he’s optimistic it will be authorized.
“We anticipate it will have an important role as a non-mRNA vaccine alternative for the purposes of boosting the population,” he said during the briefing, adding that it shows better effectiveness against delta and omicron compared to other non-mRNA vaccines that are already in use in Singapore.
More details will be provided on the use of Novavax as a booster once the expert committee has completed its discussions, he said.
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said Singapore wants to have a “good portfolio of vaccines for our national vaccination program, mRNA as well as non-mRNA.”
The inclusion of Novavax will be “consistent with that posture we have held for all this while,” he said.
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