Millions more Australians will become eligible to receive their coronavirus booster vaccine sooner with the interval between the second and third shot to be reduced. 7NEWS
Millions more Australians will become eligible to receive their coronavirus booster vaccine sooner with the interval between the second and third shot to be reduced.
“These dates have been set out of an abundance of caution to give Australians early continued protection and the advice we have is that the protection as it is, is very strong against severe illness, but what we’ll see is a much stronger protection against transmission,” Mr Hunt said. “The first one is, as has been mentioned by the minister, as has always been our main aim of the program, is to protect those that are most at risk of severe disease,” Professor Kelly said.
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