Get second booster, urges KKMPutrajaya
“The health ministry urges those who have received their first booster dose more than six months ago to get a second booster dose and not wait for the bivalent vaccine,” she said in a statement today. “The existing monovalent vaccines are still very effective in reducing serious symptoms and cases of death.”She noted that only 49.8% of Malaysians have received their first booster dose while 1.9% have received their second booster dose.
She said that based on information reported by China to the World Health Organization, “variants and subvariants found in China have also been detected in Malaysia”.FMT has reached out to the ministry for more information on these variants and subvariants and the date they were detected. The latest Covid-19 variant – a subvariant of Omicron named BF.7 – is believed to be driving the surge in infections in China.
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