Khairy says details for AZ booster shots to be announced soon, assures public that mixed vaccinations are safe
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 29 — Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin today announced that new information on Covid-19 booster shots for recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be released soon.
“We will be announcing further details soon for AZ recipients to receive their booster and also for other choices for booster shots, for example, people with allergies and cannot take the mRNA may be offered Sinovac or AZ for their booster,” he said in a Twitter post today, with reference to messenger ribonucleic acid vaccines.We will be announcing further details soon for AZ recipients to receive their booster and also for other choices for booster shots e.g.
He stressed that he himself was initially a Sinovac vaccine recipient and had taken a Pfizer booster shot before leaving for a World Health Organisation meeting in Japan earlier this week.Just to reassure everyone about the heterologous booster, I was a Sinovac recipient. Before I left for my WHO meeting I had a Pfizer booster. So I’m now
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