The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is now recommending a booster shot against COVID-19 for all adults, but especially those over the age of 50.
The Federal Advisory Group also strengthened its recommendation for several other groups and now strongly suggests booster shots for people who have received a full series of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Janssen vaccine, First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, and workers. frontline health care.
The new recommendations follow an urgent request from the federal government on the role of booster doses in the fight against the Omicron variant.
This new variant was discovered late last week and triggered stricter border measures around the world, as the World Health Organization warns that its high number of mutations could indicate that it is more transmissible than previous strains.
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